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 Grenada and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Niagra to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry Gold Smith 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Misunderstood,
Hot Snakes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
CMW,
Malaria!,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Minnie Riperton,
Theoretical Girls,
David McCallum,
Depeche Mode,
Banda Bassotti,
Soul II Soul,
Fatback Band,
The Monochrome Set,
The Techniques,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Seeds,
Ultimate Spinach,
ABC,
Dennis Brown,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
the Sonics,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
10cc,
The Monks,
Altered Images,
Bill Near,
Silicon Teens,
DNA,
L. Decosne,
The Velvet Underground,
Agent Orange,
Derrick Morgan,
Roy Ayers,
Animal Collective,
Howard Jones,
Underground Resistance,
Clear Light,
The Pop Group,
MC5,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Zeros,
Kerri Chandler,
Archie Shepp,
Letta Mbulu,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Toasters,
A Certain Ratio,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Brand Nubian,
Glenn Branca,
Tropical Tobacco,
Hasil Adkins,
Crispy Ambulance,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Spoonie Gee,
48th St. Collective,
Sister Nancy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wire,
The Fall,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.