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 Portugal and from Philadelphia.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Skaos to the punk 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Theoretical Girls,
Derrick Morgan,
The Raincoats,
Bad Manners,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Gun Club,
The Red Krayola,
B.T. Express,
David Axelrod,
Don Cherry,
Sun Ra,
Ultravox,
Dual Sessions,
Kerri Chandler,
Duran Duran,
UT,
Nation of Ulysses,
One Last Wish,
Cymande,
Absolute Body Control,
Gabor Szabo,
The Offenders,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fugazi,
Basic Channel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Drexciya,
The Barracudas,
Flash Fearless,
Lightning Bolt,
Audionom,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eurythmics,
Loose Ends,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Matthew Halsall,
Deadbeat,
Agent Orange,
Marshall Jefferson,
Section 25,
Hoover,
Josef K,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gang Starr,
The Moody Blues,
The Alarm Clocks,
Terrestrial Tones,
Eddi Front,
The Real Kids,
Bluetip,
Hasil Adkins,
The Misunderstood,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Steve Hackett,
Brand Nubian,
The Last Poets,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Oblivians,
The Doobie Brothers,
Delta 5,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.