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 Uganda and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Holger Czukay 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 Maurizio to the funk 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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Robert Görl,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Swell Maps,
Brand Nubian,
Vladislav Delay,
the Swans,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Joe Finger,
Country Teasers,
The Cure,
Essential Logic,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Hot Snakes,
Sarah Menescal,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Hashim,
Todd Terry,
Connie Case,
World's Most,
Sun City Girls,
PIL,
Oblivians,
Warsaw,
Flash Fearless,
Peter & Gordon,
Leonard Cohen,
Lindisfarne,
Section 25,
the Bar-Kays,
The Birthday Party,
Brass Construction,
Chrome,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Goldenarms,
Jesper Dahlback,
Michelle Simonal,
Maurizio,
Max Romeo,
Zero Boys,
Magazine,
The Fall,
Rotary Connection,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Fuzztones,
Kayak,
Q65,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Anakelly,
New Order,
Little Man,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Idris Muhammad,
Terrestrial Tones,
Chris Corsano,
Dual Sessions,
Isaac Hayes,
Guru Guru,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.