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 Syria and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the disco 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Johnny Osbourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kenny Larkin,
The Techniques,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Misunderstood,
Panda Bear,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sex Pistols,
Fear,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Altered Images,
One Last Wish,
The Shadows of Knight,
Iggy Pop,
Hasil Adkins,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Television,
Agent Orange,
Essential Logic,
The Fugs,
Interpol,
Rotary Connection,
Eric Dolphy,
Terrestrial Tones,
Shoche,
Fela Kuti,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ludus,
Dennis Brown,
Sonny Sharrock,
Hardrive,
Jeff Lynne,
Lyres,
Quantec,
Black Bananas,
The Kinks,
Schoolly D,
Erykah Badu,
Magma,
K-Klass,
Peter and Kerry,
The Velvet Underground,
Von Mondo,
Sun City Girls,
Marc Almond,
China Crisis,
John Holt,
The Index,
The Angels of Light,
Eric Copeland,
Davy DMX,
Cal Tjader,
JFA,
Supertramp,
Arcadia,
Deakin,
Bill Near,
Sugar Minott,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.