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 the UAE and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
the Human League,
The Slits,
The Dirtbombs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Girls At Our Best!,
Yaz,
Amazonics,
Roxy Music,
Peter and Kerry,
The Misunderstood,
Kool Moe Dee,
Arthur Verocai,
The Searchers,
Sight & Sound,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Harmonia,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Amon Düül II,
Dead Boys,
Outsiders,
Nation of Ulysses,
JFA,
Kas Product,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rapeman,
Heaven 17,
The Buckinghams,
Nirvana,
Shuggie Otis,
Thompson Twins,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Skatalites,
Echospace,
Ituana,
Make Up,
The Litter,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Loose Ends,
Popol Vuh,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sonic Youth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Saints,
Idris Muhammad,
Fear,
Scott Walker,
The Pop Group,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Martian,
New York Dolls,
Man Eating Sloth,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Skarface,
The Residents,
Pantaleimon,
Minutemen,
Depeche Mode,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.