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 Senegal and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Pagans to the crunk 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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Basic Channel,
Japan,
cv313,
Massinfluence,
Prince Buster,
Piero Umiliani,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Skarface,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Vogues,
Pet Shop Boys,
Camberwell Now,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Charles Mingus,
Sparks,
Joe Smooth,
the Slits,
Newcleus,
Jacques Brel,
H. Thieme,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bobby Sherman,
New Order,
Deadbeat,
Desert Stars,
Kerrie Biddell,
Animal Collective,
Pere Ubu,
Lebanon Hanover,
Subhumans,
Arthur Verocai,
Peter & Gordon,
Robert Wyatt,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rapeman,
Faust,
Infiniti,
Wire,
Marvin Gaye,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Freddie Wadling,
The Fugs,
Delta 5,
Fugazi,
Howard Jones,
Fluxion,
Slick Rick,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Archie Shepp,
a-ha,
Warren Ellis,
Jeff Mills,
Minny Pops,
Rufus Thomas,
The Sonics,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kenny Larkin,
R.M.O.,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.