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 Uganda and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Flipper to the funk 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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Dark Day,
Das Ding,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Toasters,
The Remains,
Michelle Simonal,
Black Sheep,
Aural Exciters,
Todd Terry,
The Velvet Underground,
This Heat,
L. Decosne,
Prince Buster,
Boz Scaggs,
The Names,
Livin' Joy,
The Martian,
T.S.O.L.,
Morten Harket,
Fela Kuti,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Cure,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Inner City,
The Misunderstood,
Yazoo,
Tubeway Army,
Black Moon,
Graham Central Station,
The Monochrome Set,
The Gap Band,
Freddie Wadling,
Wings,
Massinfluence,
Model 500,
U.S. Maple,
Blossom Toes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rotary Connection,
Eyeless In Gaza,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ossler,
Mission of Burma,
The Cosmic Jokers,
LL Cool J,
The Star Department,
Desert Stars,
The Real Kids,
New York Dolls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Nirvana,
The Trojans,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Cluster,
The Kinks,
D'Angelo,
Juan Atkins,
The Modern Lovers,
Dorothy Ashby,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.