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 Costa Rica and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 güiro 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 Rotary Connection to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Eric Dolphy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The United States of America,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
LL Cool J,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lungfish,
Echospace,
Man Eating Sloth,
Maurizio,
Crash Course in Science,
China Crisis,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Moebius,
David Bowie,
The Move,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Alphaville,
Motorama,
The Pretty Things,
The Blues Magoos,
Harry Pussy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Half Japanese,
Silicon Teens,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Severed Heads,
Model 500,
Yellowson,
The Monks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Associates,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
48th St. Collective,
Slick Rick,
Desert Stars,
The Gories,
Amazonics,
The Birthday Party,
Scan 7,
Rufus Thomas,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
Funky Four + One,
Country Teasers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Groovy Waters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Surgeon,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sonic Youth,
Sixth Finger,
Q and Not U,
Bobby Byrd,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Zero Boys,
Faust,
Au Pairs,
Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh.
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.