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 Congo and from Accra.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Arcadia to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake 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 marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 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?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dennis Brown,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marmalade,
One Last Wish,
Charles Mingus,
Severed Heads,
Joe Finger,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Christie,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Funkadelic,
Warsaw,
Rufus Thomas,
Harpers Bizarre,
DNA,
cv313,
The Beau Brummels,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Warren Ellis,
Althea and Donna,
Jandek,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
New Age Steppers,
The Trojans,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gichy Dan,
Michelle Simonal,
Moss Icon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Grandmaster Flash,
Cybotron,
The Young Rascals,
Sugar Minott,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lindisfarne,
Television Personalities,
UT,
Fluxion,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ultra Naté,
Goldenarms,
The United States of America,
Theoretical Girls,
Carl Craig,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Schoolly D,
The Red Krayola,
Mo-Dettes,
Second Layer,
Freddie Wadling,
Susan Cadogan,
Graham Central Station,
Wolf Eyes,
Oneida,
The Detroit Cobras,
Aswad,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marc Almond,
Delta 5,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.