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 Croatia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 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 Derrick Morgan to the punk 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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Model 500,
The Dave Clark Five,
John Lydon,
Liliput,
The Selecter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soul II Soul,
Echospace,
Charles Mingus,
Camberwell Now,
Intrusion,
Eurythmics,
Ronan,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Red Krayola,
The Walker Brothers,
Ludus,
Johnny Osbourne,
Loose Ends,
Hardrive,
Absolute Body Control,
UT,
Blake Baxter,
Fatback Band,
The Slits,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marc Almond,
Das Ding,
Siglo XX,
Kaleidoscope,
Donny Hathaway,
F. McDonald,
Davy DMX,
Brand Nubian,
Marmalade,
Minor Threat,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Neon Judgement,
Magma,
Matthew Halsall,
Eric Dolphy,
the Fania All-Stars,
Boredoms,
The Standells,
Bronski Beat,
Roger Hodgson,
Urselle,
The J.B.'s,
David McCallum,
Patti Smith,
Sister Nancy,
Inner City,
Roxette,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Wire,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Black Sheep,
The Raincoats,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.