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 Taiwan and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Deadbeat to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
48th St. Collective,
Lindisfarne,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ornette Coleman,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pole,
Fatback Band,
Dave Gahan,
The Detroit Cobras,
Josef K,
Ronnie Foster,
X-102,
The Seeds,
Scientists,
Eddi Front,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
Darondo,
Thompson Twins,
UT,
Crash Course in Science,
Unrelated Segments,
The Dirtbombs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Jeff Lynne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
John Foxx,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Stooges,
Gang of Four,
The Shadows of Knight,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Angels of Light,
Scion,
Supertramp,
Ralphi Rosario,
Zero Boys,
the Swans,
Flipper,
Pere Ubu,
Howard Jones,
The Electric Prunes,
Reagan Youth,
Bang On A Can,
Mantronix,
The Misunderstood,
Cymande,
The Mojo Men,
Lebanon Hanover,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Vladislav Delay,
Deepchord,
Sam Rivers,
Hoover,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Barrington Levy,
Eric Dolphy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Roxy Music,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.