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 Cameroon and from Beijing.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 theremin 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 Oppenheimer Analysis to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Nation of Ulysses,
Groovy Waters,
Bob Dylan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Livin' Joy,
Isaac Hayes,
Ossler,
Swans,
Skriet,
Sunsets and Hearts,
World's Most,
Jandek,
Reuben Wilson,
Bauhaus,
Youth Brigade,
The Skatalites,
The Evens,
Technova,
Chris & Cosey,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Interpol,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Suburban Knight,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Terry Callier,
Ohio Players,
Eric Dolphy,
Basic Channel,
Judy Mowatt,
The Durutti Column,
The Gap Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nils Olav,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rites of Spring,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Slits,
Cecil Taylor,
Tubeway Army,
Avey Tare,
Camouflage,
Donny Hathaway,
Mad Mike,
Ituana,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sister Nancy,
Sun City Girls,
The Knickerbockers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sugar Minott,
This Heat,
Bad Manners,
Section 25,
The Sound,
James White and The Blacks,
Magazine,
Wire,
Black Sheep,
Man Parrish,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lower 48,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.