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 Turkey and from Beijing.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Young Marble Giants to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pierre Henry,
The Gories,
Pere Ubu,
Robert Wyatt,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jacob Miller,
Popol Vuh,
Cameo,
Drive Like Jehu,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Motorama,
Agent Orange,
Fad Gadget,
Todd Terry,
The Birthday Party,
Sun Ra,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Gap Band,
Supertramp,
Al Stewart,
The Dirtbombs,
The Techniques,
ABC,
Negative Approach,
Jandek,
Nas,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Buckinghams,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Matthew Halsall,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gang of Four,
Barrington Levy,
Funkadelic,
The Velvet Underground,
Jeff Lynne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quantec,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Subhumans,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Q and Not U,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bang On A Can,
Throbbing Gristle,
Circle Jerks,
Trumans Water,
Camouflage,
Oneida,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pulsallama,
Soft Cell,
DNA,
KRS-One,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.