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 Syria and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 snare 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 Second Layer to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Connie Case,
Black Sheep,
Accadde A,
Ice-T,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Dennis Brown,
Sällskapet,
Altered Images,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Leonard Cohen,
Groovy Waters,
Sex Pistols,
Quantec,
Slave,
The Shadows of Knight,
Vladislav Delay,
Goldenarms,
Ultra Naté,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Con Funk Shun,
Make Up,
Cecil Taylor,
Dead Boys,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ludus,
Wasted Youth,
Nik Kershaw,
Procol Harum,
Jacob Miller,
Brick,
David McCallum,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
DJ Style,
LL Cool J,
The Fuzztones,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lalo Schifrin,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Monochrome Set,
Infiniti,
Electric Prunes,
June Days,
Lightning Bolt,
Arcadia,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lower 48,
F. McDonald,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Pop Group,
The Real Kids,
David Axelrod,
Colin Newman,
the Human League,
Marc Almond,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.