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 Turkmenistan and from Mexico City.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Hashim to the grime 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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Section 25,
Massinfluence,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Monolake,
These Immortal Souls,
Idris Muhammad,
the Fania All-Stars,
Quantec,
Surgeon,
Groovy Waters,
The Slackers,
Don Cherry,
Bobby Byrd,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Absolute Body Control,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Boogie Down Productions,
Oneida,
Basic Channel,
Public Enemy,
Eric Dolphy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Symarip,
Sugar Minott,
The Skatalites,
Blancmange,
Radiohead,
Howard Jones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alton Ellis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Agent Orange,
Gerry Rafferty,
Moebius,
Archie Shepp,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Deadbeat,
Johnny Osbourne,
Black Sheep,
Swans,
Jerry's Kids,
Icehouse,
Popol Vuh,
Zapp,
Minny Pops,
Barbara Tucker,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Drive Like Jehu,
China Crisis,
The Smiths,
Ronnie Foster,
Warren Ellis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Oblivians,
Althea and Donna,
Goldenarms,
The Birthday Party,
Marine Girls,
Suburban Knight,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.