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 Dominican Republic and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Index to the grime 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Whodini,
David Axelrod,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Nils Olav,
Bizarre Inc.,
Young Marble Giants,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Letta Mbulu,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rotary Connection,
X-101,
Model 500,
Echospace,
Jeff Mills,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bush Tetras,
the Bar-Kays,
The Moody Blues,
R.M.O.,
Toni Rubio,
Stereo Dub,
The Electric Prunes,
Gang Green,
Sun City Girls,
Moby Grape,
Robert Görl,
Thee Headcoats,
Scrapy,
Lucky Dragons,
Godley & Creme,
Brick,
Arcadia,
Charles Mingus,
Black Flag,
Con Funk Shun,
The Red Krayola,
Dennis Brown,
Rufus Thomas,
Gang of Four,
Matthew Halsall,
The Flesh Eaters,
Average White Band,
Agitation Free,
Marvin Gaye,
Cluster,
Eric Copeland,
The Monks,
Electric Prunes,
K-Klass,
Agent Orange,
The Stooges,
The Index,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Anthony Braxton,
Scan 7,
Sam Rivers,
Don Cherry,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Barracudas,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.