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 Portugal and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Michael McDonald 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 Erykah Badu to the punk 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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
The Shadows of Knight,
Suicide,
Kool Moe Dee,
Barbara Tucker,
Josef K,
Freddie Wadling,
Zero Boys,
The Last Poets,
The Cowsills,
Glambeats Corp.,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Slave,
Kevin Saunderson,
Au Pairs,
Subhumans,
Sparks,
The Sound,
Alphaville,
F. McDonald,
The Dead C,
Pantaleimon,
Sound Behaviour,
Hashim,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Harmonia,
Lindisfarne,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Silicon Teens,
Chrome,
Aloha Tigers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Hot Snakes,
Country Teasers,
Negative Approach,
Youth Brigade,
Gong,
Jerry's Kids,
Funkadelic,
DNA,
The Kinks,
Arthur Verocai,
The Golliwogs,
John Lydon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Excepter,
Cameo,
The Motions,
Adolescents,
Nik Kershaw,
Lightning Bolt,
Mandrill,
Matthew Bourne,
Das Ding,
Underground Resistance,
Cybotron,
Crooked Eye,
Nils Olav,
Ornette Coleman,
Eurythmics,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.