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 Serbia and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Deepchord to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Lightning Bolt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Moby Grape,
LL Cool J,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Leaves,
Livin' Joy,
F. McDonald,
Franke,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kurtis Blow,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Modern Lovers,
Bobby Byrd,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gil Scott Heron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ponytail,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
AZ,
Alison Limerick,
The Knickerbockers,
John Holt,
Nirvana,
MDC,
The Dirtbombs,
The Smiths,
T.S.O.L.,
Ronnie Foster,
Connie Case,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
ABC,
The Last Poets,
Theoretical Girls,
Desert Stars,
Lightning Bolt,
Terry Callier,
Moss Icon,
JFA,
Marine Girls,
Pierre Henry,
Laurel Aitken,
La Düsseldorf,
Glenn Branca,
The Martian,
Loose Ends,
Boredoms,
Anakelly,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Groovy Waters,
Slick Rick,
Fatback Band,
Howard Jones,
Sun Ra,
Peter & Gordon,
Aaron Thompson,
Henry Cow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
KRS-One,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.