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 Croatia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 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 Mars to the funk 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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Delta 5,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Guru Guru,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lower 48,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Real Kids,
New Age Steppers,
Kool Moe Dee,
Silicon Teens,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
H. Thieme,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cluster,
Aswad,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sandy B,
Rakim,
Junior Murvin,
Mission of Burma,
Babytalk,
Nico,
Frankie Knuckles,
EPMD,
The Golliwogs,
Television Personalities,
Country Teasers,
Glenn Branca,
Amazonics,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Last Poets,
Freddie Wadling,
Stereo Dub,
Excepter,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roy Ayers,
Moss Icon,
Howard Jones,
Charles Mingus,
Piero Umiliani,
The Detroit Cobras,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Cowsills,
the Soft Cell,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Happenings,
Cal Tjader,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
MDC,
The Selecter,
The Gap Band,
Isaac Hayes,
Gang of Four,
Monolake,
cv313,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Siglo XX,
The Motions,
Bush Tetras,
Skaos,
Minny Pops,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.