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 United Kingdom and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Morten Harket to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All T. Rex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pere Ubu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Bronski Beat,
Urselle,
Kaleidoscope,
Slave,
Hoover,
New Order,
The Zeros,
Animal Collective,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Happenings,
One Last Wish,
Faust,
Lower 48,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jimmy McGriff,
Radio Birdman,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Amon Düül II,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Yusef Lateef,
Jacob Miller,
Joy Division,
Big Daddy Kane,
Curtis Mayfield,
Blake Baxter,
Audionom,
Sparks,
The Martian,
Cecil Taylor,
Franke,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eden Ahbez,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Robert Görl,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Yazoo,
Fear,
The Doobie Brothers,
Robert Wyatt,
John Lydon,
Deakin,
Sixth Finger,
Bang On A Can,
Delon & Dalcan,
Leonard Cohen,
Banda Bassotti,
Echospace,
The Skatalites,
The Evens,
The Blues Magoos,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Grass Roots,
Second Layer,
Lungfish,
Todd Terry,
Altered Images,
Bizarre Inc.,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.