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 Barbados and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Jakarta.
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 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 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 The Names to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
OOIOO,
Robert Hood,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Model 500,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bill Near,
Roxette,
Wally Richardson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Q65,
Jeff Mills,
Camberwell Now,
Tears for Fears,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ultravox,
The United States of America,
Japan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Funkadelic,
New Age Steppers,
Bizarre Inc.,
Scion,
The Alarm Clocks,
Cal Tjader,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Jacques Brel,
The Durutti Column,
The Buckinghams,
Prince Buster,
The Young Rascals,
Maurizio,
Niagra,
The Human League,
10cc,
Alton Ellis,
The Gap Band,
Panda Bear,
Royal Trux,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sex Pistols,
Sonic Youth,
Yusef Lateef,
Rites of Spring,
Kayak,
Lee Hazlewood,
DNA,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Monks,
Eden Ahbez,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lucky Dragons,
David Bowie,
Minnie Riperton,
The Vogues,
Ponytail,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.