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 Greece and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Seoul.
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 guitar 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 Byron Stingily to the crunk 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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario 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 clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crash Course in Science,
Quando Quango,
Andrew Hill,
Glenn Branca,
Mo-Dettes,
Marine Girls,
The Fire Engines,
EPMD,
World's Most,
Monolake,
New Age Steppers,
Eve St. Jones,
Cybotron,
Johnny Osbourne,
Neil Young,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pulsallama,
Patti Smith,
Franke,
E-Dancer,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Schoolly D,
Darondo,
Qualms,
Ken Boothe,
The Flesh Eaters,
Anakelly,
The Slits,
Black Sheep,
The Misunderstood,
Prince Buster,
Ludus,
Alphaville,
Stiv Bators,
Brand Nubian,
ABBA,
Scan 7,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Infiniti,
Eddi Front,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Delon & Dalcan,
Television Personalities,
Morten Harket,
Crime,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cluster,
Joey Negro,
Soul II Soul,
Bluetip,
The Mummies,
Stetsasonic,
Alison Limerick,
Susan Cadogan,
Amon Düül II,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ronan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.