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 Andorra and from Bologna.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare 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 Au Pairs to the disco 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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fatback Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Soul II Soul,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Con Funk Shun,
UT,
Lou Christie,
Magma,
Alison Limerick,
Bizarre Inc.,
LL Cool J,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Organ,
Popol Vuh,
The Beau Brummels,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Hasil Adkins,
Half Japanese,
Dual Sessions,
Circle Jerks,
Das Ding,
Gregory Isaacs,
Q and Not U,
Jawbox,
The Slackers,
Ituana,
Peter & Gordon,
The New Christs,
Gichy Dan,
Girls At Our Best!,
Robert Görl,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Todd Terry,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eric Dolphy,
The Motions,
Joensuu 1685,
Babytalk,
The Offenders,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ultra Naté,
Technova,
World's Most,
X-101,
Kool Moe Dee,
James Chance & The Contortions,
10cc,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Kinks,
KRS-One,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kaleidoscope,
Blancmange,
DNA,
Vainqueur,
Isaac Hayes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
La Düsseldorf,
the Soft Cell,
Quadrant,
The Move,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.