Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Algeria and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Vaughan Mason & Crew to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Gong. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Sound Behaviour,
Unrelated Segments,
Schoolly D,
Barrington Levy,
The Litter,
The Sonics,
One Last Wish,
This Heat,
Joy Division,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Connie Case,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Matthew Halsall,
The Gories,
The Happenings,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lyres,
Pierre Henry,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Monks,
The Invisible,
Fat Boys,
Bronski Beat,
Lindisfarne,
Blossom Toes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Motorama,
Tears for Fears,
Q and Not U,
Aloha Tigers,
Ituana,
Jawbox,
Soulsonic Force,
Pagans,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Chris & Cosey,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Blackbyrds,
The Index,
EPMD,
Rites of Spring,
Guru Guru,
Susan Cadogan,
Symarip,
Index,
The Slits,
Porter Ricks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Monochrome Set,
Echospace,
Sun City Girls,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Arab on Radar,
Avey Tare,
Moby Grape,
Jerry's Kids,
Skaos,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rapeman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.