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 Solomon Islands and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 linndrum 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 The Residents to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radio Birdman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Throbbing Gristle,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Index,
Freddie Wadling,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Saints,
the Normal,
Unwound,
Anakelly,
Yellowson,
Theoretical Girls,
H. Thieme,
Blossom Toes,
The Fall,
Public Image Ltd.,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ossler,
Cymande,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gang Gang Dance,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Blake Baxter,
Wolf Eyes,
Sixth Finger,
Gang of Four,
Kaleidoscope,
Buzzcocks,
Deakin,
The Searchers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chrome,
MC5,
Amon Düül II,
Radiopuhelimet,
Erasure,
Absolute Body Control,
Neil Young,
T.S.O.L.,
Excepter,
Swell Maps,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Remains,
Josef K,
Moebius,
Nation of Ulysses,
ABC,
The Fortunes,
Rapeman,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Hood,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Technova,
The Mojo Men,
Livin' Joy,
Quadrant,
The Victims,
Kurtis Blow,
These Immortal Souls,
Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh.
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.