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 the UAE and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Derrick May to the electroclash 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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Cal Tjader,
Aswad,
Livin' Joy,
Niagra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bluetip,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Blancmange,
Tropical Tobacco,
Negative Approach,
Jeff Mills,
Radio Birdman,
Animal Collective,
JFA,
Blake Baxter,
Freddie Wadling,
Q and Not U,
Lightning Bolt,
Tres Demented,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Mo-Dettes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ultravox,
UT,
Byron Stingily,
June Days,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Todd Terry,
Darondo,
Tommy Roe,
Minutemen,
Subhumans,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Count Five,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Q65,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Oblivians,
Yazoo,
Television,
CMW,
The Dead C,
Yusef Lateef,
Danielle Patucci,
Tears for Fears,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
T. Rex,
X-102,
Altered Images,
Adolescents,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Flag,
Kerrie Biddell,
Zero Boys,
Theoretical Girls,
Glambeats Corp.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.