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 Bolivia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 oboe 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 Arcadia to the disco 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 The Dirtbombs. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
The Gun Club,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Mojo Men,
Michelle Simonal,
Man Parrish,
The Moody Blues,
Arthur Verocai,
Bobby Womack,
Eric Dolphy,
This Heat,
The Stooges,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Icehouse,
Soul Sonic Force,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Man Eating Sloth,
Niagra,
CMW,
Marine Girls,
Mark Hollis,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Stetsasonic,
the Association,
Circle Jerks,
The Angels of Light,
The Invisible,
Lungfish,
Accadde A,
Metal Thangz,
Blossom Toes,
Ten City,
the Human League,
Camberwell Now,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Cure,
The Happenings,
Bronski Beat,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
World's Most,
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Wings,
Rufus Thomas,
Hot Snakes,
Eden Ahbez,
Pierre Henry,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ohio Players,
Section 25,
Neil Young,
Spandau Ballet,
Ronan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dark Day,
The Durutti Column,
Brand Nubian,
Suicide,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.