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 Haiti 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Flamin' Groovies to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Trumans Water,
Index,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Fatback Band,
MDC,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
AZ,
Warren Ellis,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Moebius,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fela Kuti,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Althea and Donna,
Pierre Henry,
The Names,
The New Christs,
Carl Craig,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gang Starr,
The Real Kids,
The Sonics,
Hot Snakes,
The Sound,
Magazine,
The Fugs,
This Heat,
Adolescents,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
David Axelrod,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rakim,
Neil Young,
Au Pairs,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Infiniti,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ornette Coleman,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eddi Front,
The Divine Comedy,
Quantec,
Deepchord,
Shoche,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bob Dylan,
Man Parrish,
Pharoah Sanders,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jeru the Damaja,
Barclay James Harvest,
Moss Icon,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lyres,
One Last Wish,
Young Marble Giants,
Isaac Hayes,
The Five Americans,
Amazonics,
Darondo, Darondo, Darondo, Darondo.
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.