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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba 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 Josef K to the electroclash 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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Young Marble Giants,
Half Japanese,
Crooked Eye,
Byron Stingily,
Swell Maps,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Royal Trux,
The Gap Band,
The Raincoats,
Roy Ayers,
Cal Tjader,
Jesper Dahlback,
Blake Baxter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra,
Man Parrish,
Chris Corsano,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Alton Ellis,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bob Dylan,
Essential Logic,
Warsaw,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Q65,
Bobby Womack,
the Sonics,
World's Most,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gil Scott Heron,
Godley & Creme,
Symarip,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Zero Boys,
Scion,
The Blackbyrds,
Scan 7,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Erykah Badu,
Pantaleimon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Freddie Wadling,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Davy DMX,
Charles Mingus,
Excepter,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Fire Engines,
Fluxion,
Johnny Clarke,
Neil Young,
The Busters,
PIL,
The Neon Judgement,
Hashim,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gastr Del Sol,
U.S. Maple,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.