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 Kazakhstan and from Mexico City.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Donny Hathaway to the disco 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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rakim,
Negative Approach,
The Monochrome Set,
John Holt,
The Electric Prunes,
Scrapy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Vladislav Delay,
Crooked Eye,
Livin' Joy,
James White and The Blacks,
Heaven 17,
The Busters,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Toasters,
Flipper,
The Beau Brummels,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cecil Taylor,
Desert Stars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glambeats Corp.,
UT,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Q and Not U,
Hardrive,
The Cure,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bush Tetras,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kayak,
The Monks,
R.M.O.,
Thompson Twins,
Marine Girls,
Nas,
Lucky Dragons,
Yusef Lateef,
Tommy Roe,
Joensuu 1685,
Quadrant,
Terrestrial Tones,
Accadde A,
The Names,
Andrew Hill,
EPMD,
cv313,
Todd Rundgren,
Motorama,
Sugar Minott,
Los Fastidios,
Q65,
Fugazi,
Todd Terry,
Stockholm Monsters,
Grauzone,
Fat Boys,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.