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 Macedonia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Dennis Brown to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All The Beau Brummels tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
The Skatalites,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Thompson Twins,
Gil Scott Heron,
Erykah Badu,
Pylon,
Peter & Gordon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Marmalade,
Loose Ends,
Flipper,
Ohio Players,
Bobby Byrd,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Johnny Osbourne,
Vainqueur,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Los Fastidios,
Joy Division,
The Evens,
Essential Logic,
Skarface,
Royal Trux,
Letta Mbulu,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
D'Angelo,
The Neon Judgement,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
A Certain Ratio,
Ronan,
The Star Department,
Rakim,
Ornette Coleman,
The Searchers,
Hashim,
The Count Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Coltrane,
Bronski Beat,
Cheater Slicks,
Stiv Bators,
Roger Hodgson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Darondo,
Brand Nubian,
Jacob Miller,
Byron Stingily,
Josef K,
Scratch Acid,
Amon Düül II,
Joe Finger,
Massinfluence,
Jacques Brel,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Public Enemy,
Lou Christie,
Make Up,
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.