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 Chad and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Angry Samoans to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Kas Product,
Bush Tetras,
Con Funk Shun,
Stockholm Monsters,
Groovy Waters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Black Sheep,
Visage,
Joensuu 1685,
Derrick May,
Scrapy,
Marine Girls,
10cc,
Young Marble Giants,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camberwell Now,
World's Most,
Roxette,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Girls At Our Best!,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mo-Dettes,
Lyres,
Dave Gahan,
Tommy Roe,
John Foxx,
Jeff Mills,
Niagra,
Roxy Music,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Main Source,
Dual Sessions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Derrick Morgan,
Vainqueur,
Alison Limerick,
Todd Rundgren,
Banda Bassotti,
Metal Thangz,
The Motions,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Crash Course in Science,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Animal Collective,
Alphaville,
T.S.O.L.,
The Busters,
Sparks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fugs,
Rapeman,
James White and The Blacks,
The Sonics,
Barclay James Harvest,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.