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 Czech Republic and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Black Flag,
Pagans,
June Days,
The Cowsills,
Harpers Bizarre,
Marvin Gaye,
Wings,
Cecil Taylor,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Young Marble Giants,
Q and Not U,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
DJ Style,
the Germs,
AZ,
Roxette,
Yaz,
Janne Schatter,
Bronski Beat,
The Divine Comedy,
Pere Ubu,
The Gap Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joe Smooth,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
F. McDonald,
The Trojans,
Arcadia,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pylon,
The Walker Brothers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Robert Wyatt,
Guru Guru,
Suburban Knight,
Country Teasers,
Peter and Kerry,
Liliput,
The Gories,
Altered Images,
The Dead C,
David Bowie,
The United States of America,
The Pop Group,
Pierre Henry,
Yusef Lateef,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fluxion,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Evens,
Shuggie Otis,
Infiniti,
48th St. Collective,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rakim,
Brick,
Ice-T,
Royal Trux,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.