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 Norway and from New York.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jacques Brel to the crunk 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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Mission of Burma,
Sarah Menescal,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Buckinghams,
The Seeds,
Masters at Work,
Oneida,
Cheater Slicks,
Scratch Acid,
Kerrie Biddell,
Janne Schatter,
OOIOO,
Vainqueur,
Sam Rivers,
Deadbeat,
Eric Copeland,
D'Angelo,
Essential Logic,
Intrusion,
Amon Düül II,
Nico,
Morten Harket,
Delon & Dalcan,
A Certain Ratio,
The Skatalites,
Dennis Brown,
Ten City,
Metal Thangz,
Josef K,
Moebius,
Ronnie Foster,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Alphaville,
The Human League,
Quadrant,
Donald Byrd,
Davy DMX,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Barbara Tucker,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Half Japanese,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The United States of America,
Nils Olav,
Dual Sessions,
Cameo,
Isaac Hayes,
Urselle,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bush Tetras,
Stereo Dub,
The Young Rascals,
Fatback Band,
June Days,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ice-T,
Interpol,
Porter Ricks,
Monolake,
Slave,
Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats.
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.