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 Qatar and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Second Layer to the techno 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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camouflage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Evens,
Lyres,
Tropical Tobacco,
Essential Logic,
Minor Threat,
The Moleskins,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sarah Menescal,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Deakin,
Roxette,
Saccharine Trust,
Absolute Body Control,
Sister Nancy,
FM Einheit,
The Moody Blues,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Echospace,
Michelle Simonal,
Royal Trux,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ituana,
The Motions,
Jimmy McGriff,
Swell Maps,
Donny Hathaway,
Masters at Work,
The Associates,
Silicon Teens,
Arthur Verocai,
Susan Cadogan,
Trumans Water,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Buzzcocks,
Vainqueur,
Harmonia,
Connie Case,
Erykah Badu,
Reuben Wilson,
X-Ray Spex,
Marine Girls,
Zapp,
Gang Green,
Mission of Burma,
Rotary Connection,
The Detroit Cobras,
Radiopuhelimet,
R.M.O.,
The Stooges,
Chrome,
CMW,
A Certain Ratio,
Girls At Our Best!,
Yaz,
Rapeman,
Monolake,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.