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 Maldives and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the funk 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlbäck record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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 Stooges,
The Kinks,
The Last Poets,
Essential Logic,
Q and Not U,
The Monochrome Set,
Ronnie Foster,
Henry Cow,
Skarface,
The Associates,
Loose Ends,
The Count Five,
Fat Boys,
Eric Dolphy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gladiators,
CMW,
Public Enemy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camouflage,
Flamin' Groovies,
Shuggie Otis,
Amon Düül,
The Gap Band,
The Tremeloes,
Yazoo,
Los Fastidios,
Accadde A,
Television,
Rites of Spring,
Masters at Work,
Bootsy Collins,
Smog,
Alice Coltrane,
E-Dancer,
Desert Stars,
Hoover,
Ultra Naté,
Porter Ricks,
OOIOO,
Oneida,
Mantronix,
Zapp,
Shoche,
Half Japanese,
Joe Finger,
The Raincoats,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Young Rascals,
Tres Demented,
Marmalade,
Robert Hood,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Foxx,
8 Eyed Spy,
Absolute Body Control,
Country Teasers,
Flipper,
The Monks,
The Red Krayola,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion.
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.