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 Israel and from Madrid.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 Gichy Dan to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Aaron Thompson,
The Vogues,
Max Romeo,
Franke,
Dave Gahan,
Bill Wells,
Fela Kuti,
Arcadia,
Groovy Waters,
Hardrive,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scan 7,
Quando Quango,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cabaret Voltaire,
James White and The Blacks,
the Fania All-Stars,
Al Stewart,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stiv Bators,
This Heat,
KRS-One,
Archie Shepp,
The Leaves,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Red Krayola,
Metal Thangz,
Average White Band,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gabor Szabo,
Rufus Thomas,
MC5,
Bob Dylan,
The Detroit Cobras,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kayak,
The Blues Magoos,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nation of Ulysses,
Deakin,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Radio Birdman,
Zero Boys,
Thee Headcoats,
Sarah Menescal,
Toni Rubio,
Lakeside,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
AZ,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rotary Connection,
Quantec,
Althea and Donna,
OOIOO,
Arab on Radar,
Trumans Water,
Radiopuhelimet,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kurtis Blow,
Peter & Gordon,
The Residents,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.