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 France and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Underground Resistance to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Radiohead,
The Flesh Eaters,
Au Pairs,
The Busters,
Chrome,
The Selecter,
Jeru the Damaja,
Agent Orange,
Royal Trux,
the Sonics,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Doors,
Don Cherry,
Barclay James Harvest,
Joy Division,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ken Boothe,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Moon,
Skarface,
AZ,
Aloha Tigers,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sugar Minott,
The Blackbyrds,
Lucky Dragons,
the Human League,
Fatback Band,
Metal Thangz,
The Fortunes,
Lalo Schifrin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Wire,
Amon Düül,
Patti Smith,
Arab on Radar,
Rotary Connection,
The Residents,
Amazonics,
Lower 48,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
June of 44,
The Golliwogs,
Sun Ra,
Tears for Fears,
Swans,
Bad Manners,
Barrington Levy,
Zero Boys,
Surgeon,
Glenn Branca,
The Standells,
Ludus,
Mr. Review,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Minny Pops,
Mars,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.