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 Guinea-Bissau 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Mandrill to the crunk 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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf 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?
CMW,
The Litter,
Tim Buckley,
The Buckinghams,
Laurel Aitken,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Black Dice,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Graham Central Station,
Black Bananas,
Davy DMX,
Oblivians,
Subhumans,
Toni Rubio,
Colin Newman,
E-Dancer,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ultravox,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DNA,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sam Rivers,
Angry Samoans,
Jimmy McGriff,
Soulsonic Force,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ken Boothe,
Andrew Hill,
Japan,
Henry Cow,
Marine Girls,
Ralphi Rosario,
Royal Trux,
Minnie Riperton,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sonic Youth,
Infiniti,
Brass Construction,
Ponytail,
Hashim,
The Raincoats,
Bad Manners,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Divine Comedy,
Porter Ricks,
Slave,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Icehouse,
Funky Four + One,
New Order,
Aural Exciters,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Blues Magoos,
Pylon,
Neu!,
The Happenings,
Country Teasers,
Aswad,
Lalann, Lalann, Lalann, Lalann.
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.