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 Zimbabwe and from Delhi.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Alarm Clocks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
New Order,
AZ,
LL Cool J,
Tres Demented,
Q and Not U,
Gang Gang Dance,
Excepter,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Walker Brothers,
Khruangbin,
DJ Style,
The Skatalites,
Aswad,
Ituana,
Eddi Front,
The Pretty Things,
Andrew Hill,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kerrie Biddell,
Joey Negro,
The Human League,
Radiopuhelimet,
Echospace,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Leaves,
Idris Muhammad,
Suicide,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nik Kershaw,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Public Enemy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bob Dylan,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eve St. Jones,
The Index,
Patti Smith,
Agitation Free,
Gil Scott Heron,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Slackers,
The Kinks,
Derrick Morgan,
Easy Going,
Rufus Thomas,
Malaria!,
Shuggie Otis,
Stetsasonic,
The Names,
Cybotron,
MDC,
Dorothy Ashby,
Grauzone,
The Velvet Underground,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Q65,
Eric B and Rakim,
Jerry's Kids,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.