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 Bangladesh and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 808 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 Kayak to the grunge 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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
The Angels of Light,
Brass Construction,
Robert Wyatt,
Glenn Branca,
Josef K,
Main Source,
Agitation Free,
Agent Orange,
Gang Green,
Sugar Minott,
Hoover,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Doors,
Ponytail,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Dave Clark Five,
Circle Jerks,
The Dirtbombs,
The Black Dice,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lou Christie,
R.M.O.,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Zeros,
Junior Murvin,
Aaron Thompson,
Theoretical Girls,
The Blues Magoos,
Von Mondo,
World's Most,
Roy Ayers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bush Tetras,
The Gladiators,
Desert Stars,
Delon & Dalcan,
Prince Buster,
Massinfluence,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eric Dolphy,
Saccharine Trust,
Barrington Levy,
Buzzcocks,
Icehouse,
Althea and Donna,
The Mummies,
Funkadelic,
Mission of Burma,
Magma,
Scott Walker,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Stockholm Monsters,
John Cale,
Bang On A Can,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Red Krayola,
The Misunderstood,
Bootsy Collins,
Pierre Henry,
Connie Case,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.