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 Brunei and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Godley & Creme to the funk 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents 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 a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Spoonie Gee,
Public Image Ltd.,
Junior Murvin,
Blossom Toes,
Hasil Adkins,
The Gap Band,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Mojo Men,
Dennis Brown,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mandrill,
Ultravox,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wasted Youth,
The Divine Comedy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Easy Going,
Can,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jawbox,
Barry Ungar,
Darondo,
Smog,
Althea and Donna,
LL Cool J,
Fatback Band,
Reagan Youth,
Theoretical Girls,
Aswad,
Eric Dolphy,
Surgeon,
Section 25,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The United States of America,
Boz Scaggs,
Shuggie Otis,
Glenn Branca,
Barclay James Harvest,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Funkadelic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Trojans,
Davy DMX,
Black Bananas,
Amon Düül,
The Searchers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ponytail,
Nation of Ulysses,
Minor Threat,
the Swans,
F. McDonald,
8 Eyed Spy,
Susan Cadogan,
Grey Daturas,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soft Machine,
Das Ding,
Quando Quango,
Scott Walker,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Germs, the Germs, the Germs, the Germs.
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.