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 Egypt and from Houston.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Columbus.
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 marimba 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 Mandrill to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Misunderstood,
Bobby Womack,
Index,
Popol Vuh,
Kevin Saunderson,
Juan Atkins,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Al Stewart,
Crime,
Intrusion,
Sällskapet,
Make Up,
Altered Images,
8 Eyed Spy,
Erykah Badu,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sex Pistols,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Monochrome Set,
The Cure,
The Sonics,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Kinks,
Bill Wells,
Silicon Teens,
Dawn Penn,
Colin Newman,
Absolute Body Control,
Reagan Youth,
Bluetip,
Wings,
Barbara Tucker,
K-Klass,
Tim Buckley,
X-102,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ultravox,
The Red Krayola,
Avey Tare,
Alison Limerick,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Malaria!,
Chris & Cosey,
John Foxx,
the Slits,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Standells,
Scion,
CMW,
World's Most,
Neu!,
Sixth Finger,
Skarface,
Scientists,
Delon & Dalcan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wire,
The Shadows of Knight,
Fad Gadget,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.