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 Eritrea and from Mumbai.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Amazonics,
Basic Channel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bill Wells,
Scan 7,
Siglo XX,
Stiv Bators,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Evens,
Buzzcocks,
Drexciya,
Duran Duran,
Isaac Hayes,
Jandek,
Soft Machine,
Main Source,
Ossler,
Inner City,
Tomorrow,
Crime,
Gichy Dan,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Raincoats,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eric Dolphy,
AZ,
Saccharine Trust,
Warren Ellis,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Blancmange,
Marc Almond,
Moby Grape,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Skarface,
KRS-One,
Cybotron,
Tom Boy,
Fatback Band,
Section 25,
Smog,
Radiopuhelimet,
Porter Ricks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kool Moe Dee,
Monks,
Dennis Brown,
The Neon Judgement,
Althea and Donna,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pussy Galore,
Peter & Gordon,
kango's stein massive,
Moss Icon,
Minor Threat,
Mr. Review,
The Walker Brothers,
Sun City Girls,
Slick Rick,
MC5,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Alphaville,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.