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 Malaysia and from Lagos.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Clear Light to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Excepter,
Albert Ayler,
Dennis Brown,
Adolescents,
Scratch Acid,
Sarah Menescal,
Pierre Henry,
Terry Callier,
Duran Duran,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Wings,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Idris Muhammad,
Leonard Cohen,
Hasil Adkins,
Nirvana,
Flipper,
the Sonics,
Derrick Morgan,
Reagan Youth,
Au Pairs,
The Sonics,
Das Ding,
Funky Four + One,
Thompson Twins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Accadde A,
Model 500,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
June of 44,
Echospace,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Litter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jacques Brel,
Blossom Toes,
Joe Smooth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pussy Galore,
Buzzcocks,
The Monochrome Set,
Godley & Creme,
Aloha Tigers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Juan Atkins,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Joe Finger,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Con Funk Shun,
Guru Guru,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Liliput,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Coltrane,
Black Sheep,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Barracudas,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.