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 Botswana and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Pylon to the jazz 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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Zero Boys,
Moby Grape,
Lightning Bolt,
Clear Light,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Derrick Morgan,
Sparks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ludus,
Fad Gadget,
Idris Muhammad,
Rapeman,
Outsiders,
Slick Rick,
Mantronix,
The Human League,
The New Christs,
Zapp,
Barrington Levy,
Pantaleimon,
Electric Prunes,
Can,
The Monochrome Set,
10cc,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Swans,
Eurythmics,
Bad Manners,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Babytalk,
The Cowsills,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rekid,
Vainqueur,
Terrestrial Tones,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
T.S.O.L.,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Fortunes,
Bizarre Inc.,
Barry Ungar,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bang On A Can,
Das Ding,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Moss Icon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Wolf Eyes,
ABC,
The Doobie Brothers,
Soft Cell,
Steve Hackett,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Pretty Things,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.