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 Moldova and from Lyon.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Prince Buster to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
T.S.O.L.,
Mark Hollis,
Don Cherry,
Scott Walker,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rotary Connection,
Brand Nubian,
Eric Dolphy,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Victims,
This Heat,
Lucky Dragons,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Oneida,
Cameo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Funky Four + One,
The J.B.'s,
Aloha Tigers,
The Moleskins,
Isaac Hayes,
Clear Light,
Shuggie Otis,
Technova,
Eddi Front,
Smog,
Johnny Osbourne,
Minor Threat,
AZ,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Prince Buster,
The Cramps,
The Index,
Lightning Bolt,
Underground Resistance,
The Litter,
T. Rex,
Slave,
the Sonics,
Sun City Girls,
B.T. Express,
Kurtis Blow,
Bizarre Inc.,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dead Boys,
Inner City,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Tommy Roe,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jeff Lynne,
Zapp,
Yellowson,
Cybotron,
Big Daddy Kane,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pierre Henry,
Panda Bear,
The Gun Club,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.