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 Bahamas and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs 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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All The Count Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacques Brel 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?
The Gladiators,
Man Eating Sloth,
Suicide,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Nico,
Eden Ahbez,
Nik Kershaw,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Monolake,
Cameo,
Black Sheep,
Gil Scott Heron,
Icehouse,
Bill Near,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Slackers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lalo Schifrin,
Marmalade,
The Dead C,
Porter Ricks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Sound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Grass Roots,
the Bar-Kays,
Derrick Morgan,
Anthony Braxton,
Nation of Ulysses,
Deadbeat,
Skriet,
The Raincoats,
Lebanon Hanover,
Alison Limerick,
Rakim,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
cv313,
Pulsallama,
Black Bananas,
Tres Demented,
Sällskapet,
Unwound,
The Blues Magoos,
Joe Smooth,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fad Gadget,
The Selecter,
AZ,
Al Stewart,
Morten Harket,
Fear,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bobby Byrd,
Oblivians,
The Techniques,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.