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 Seychelles and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the dance 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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
JFA,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Los Fastidios,
Shuggie Otis,
Amon Düül II,
China Crisis,
Bang On A Can,
Basic Channel,
The Associates,
Pharoah Sanders,
Babytalk,
Sugar Minott,
Tres Demented,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Soft Cell,
Porter Ricks,
Black Bananas,
The Selecter,
F. McDonald,
Scion,
Dennis Brown,
Sällskapet,
Max Romeo,
Thompson Twins,
Crash Course in Science,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Visage,
Donny Hathaway,
Kerri Chandler,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
kango's stein massive,
Terry Callier,
The Divine Comedy,
Livin' Joy,
Brothers Johnson,
Fela Kuti,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bizarre Inc.,
Hasil Adkins,
The Durutti Column,
L. Decosne,
Marshall Jefferson,
Siglo XX,
Television,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gastr Del Sol,
Amazonics,
Charles Mingus,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Fire Engines,
Eddi Front,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Erykah Badu,
Supertramp,
Crispian St. Peters,
Groovy Waters,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.