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 Iraq and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes 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 Metal Thangz to the jazz 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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
10cc,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pulsallama,
Maleditus Sound,
Todd Rundgren,
Bobby Byrd,
Johnny Clarke,
The Saints,
Aloha Tigers,
Flipper,
CMW,
Surgeon,
Symarip,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Offenders,
Vladislav Delay,
The Move,
The Cramps,
Eyeless In Gaza,
a-ha,
Cal Tjader,
Gabor Szabo,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Fuzztones,
Los Fastidios,
Pantytec,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ossler,
Boogie Down Productions,
Arthur Verocai,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Flesh Eaters,
Fear,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bronski Beat,
The Mummies,
Lalann,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Funkadelic,
Tom Boy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Dave Clark Five,
the Germs,
Dave Gahan,
Toni Rubio,
The Red Krayola,
Blancmange,
Country Teasers,
The Moody Blues,
Roxy Music,
Althea and Donna,
The Happenings,
Agitation Free,
Steve Hackett,
Brass Construction,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Standells,
The Gories,
Livin' Joy,
Panda Bear,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.