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 Chile and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 Agitation Free to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
In Retrospect,
Vladislav Delay,
Janne Schatter,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cybotron,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Matthew Halsall,
Joe Smooth,
Stetsasonic,
Erasure,
Bill Near,
Audionom,
Maurizio,
DNA,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lee Hazlewood,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Angry Samoans,
Kaleidoscope,
Von Mondo,
Monks,
Scratch Acid,
Alphaville,
Barrington Levy,
Roy Ayers,
DJ Sneak,
Lucky Dragons,
Schoolly D,
Freddie Wadling,
John Holt,
Bush Tetras,
D'Angelo,
Gichy Dan,
Roger Hodgson,
Ponytail,
The Blues Magoos,
Curtis Mayfield,
Theoretical Girls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
MC5,
Rakim,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Eurythmics,
Funky Four + One,
X-101,
The Seeds,
Alton Ellis,
kango's stein massive,
The Cowsills,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Danielle Patucci,
Robert Görl,
Pussy Galore,
The Skatalites,
Blancmange,
Michelle Simonal,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.