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 Thailand and from Beijing.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe 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 DJ Sneak to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Outsiders,
Nico,
Sight & Sound,
Cymande,
The Blues Magoos,
Joe Finger,
Lightning Bolt,
Gong,
Godley & Creme,
The Velvet Underground,
Black Bananas,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fluxion,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
JFA,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Flamin' Groovies,
Roxette,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Flash Fearless,
Eli Mardock,
La Düsseldorf,
The Moleskins,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Count Five,
One Last Wish,
The Music Machine,
Skarface,
Procol Harum,
Wings,
Panda Bear,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Half Japanese,
Siglo XX,
The Black Dice,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Blossom Toes,
Lakeside,
Q65,
Todd Rundgren,
The Beau Brummels,
Black Moon,
Heaven 17,
Tears for Fears,
Radio Birdman,
Interpol,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pulsallama,
Black Flag,
Freddie Wadling,
Althea and Donna,
Agent Orange,
The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.
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.