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 Indonesia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes 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 Liliput to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Infiniti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
Bobby Sherman,
Audionom,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Saccharine Trust,
The Black Dice,
Todd Terry,
Chrome,
Bluetip,
Model 500,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Grass Roots,
The Detroit Cobras,
Nick Fraelich,
Silicon Teens,
the Slits,
Anakelly,
Roger Hodgson,
Marc Almond,
New Age Steppers,
Adolescents,
Tom Boy,
Eli Mardock,
The Evens,
Ossler,
The Red Krayola,
The Knickerbockers,
John Coltrane,
Unrelated Segments,
Jimmy McGriff,
Graham Central Station,
The Kinks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Buckinghams,
Chris Corsano,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Joey Negro,
David Axelrod,
Mission of Burma,
Sun Ra,
Main Source,
June Days,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Outsiders,
Half Japanese,
Scrapy,
Agitation Free,
Mo-Dettes,
Q65,
The Fuzztones,
Kerri Chandler,
Interpol,
Fear,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Babytalk,
Faraquet,
The Last Poets,
The Gap Band,
Inner City,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.