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 Azerbaijan and from Taipei.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the güiro 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 JFA to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Pretty Things. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Slave,
Stockholm Monsters,
Niagra,
Crispy Ambulance,
One Last Wish,
John Coltrane,
The Star Department,
Scan 7,
The Divine Comedy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Alphaville,
ABBA,
The Fugs,
The Trojans,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Gap Band,
Bob Dylan,
Hoover,
Wire,
The Durutti Column,
Kevin Saunderson,
Stereo Dub,
The Knickerbockers,
Howard Jones,
48th St. Collective,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soul Sonic Force,
Main Source,
Nirvana,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Fuzztones,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Junior Murvin,
Gong,
Q and Not U,
Gabor Szabo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Zapp,
Ash Ra Tempel,
John Holt,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jerry's Kids,
Brick,
Mary Jane Girls,
Piero Umiliani,
Infiniti,
The Litter,
Saccharine Trust,
The Golliwogs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marcia Griffiths,
World's Most,
Easy Going,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.