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 San Marino 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 Sparks to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fire Engines,
Cal Tjader,
Radio Birdman,
Skriet,
Loose Ends,
The New Christs,
Kerrie Biddell,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Doors,
James White and The Blacks,
Grey Daturas,
Average White Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Roger Hodgson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Alice Coltrane,
Amazonics,
Quantec,
New Age Steppers,
Ohio Players,
Delta 5,
Agent Orange,
CMW,
Lalann,
Buzzcocks,
the Association,
Darondo,
DJ Sneak,
Gabor Szabo,
Ronan,
Patti Smith,
Second Layer,
L. Decosne,
Jandek,
The Vogues,
The Durutti Column,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Wake,
The Mummies,
June Days,
Scan 7,
Eurythmics,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
DNA,
Lakeside,
The Buckinghams,
the Slits,
Danielle Patucci,
Fad Gadget,
The Raincoats,
Soulsonic Force,
Black Pus,
Spoonie Gee,
Sarah Menescal,
Pere Ubu,
Deepchord,
Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor.
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.