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 Gambia and from Accra.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Infiniti to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Flipper,
Andrew Hill,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Thompson Twins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
World's Most,
The Busters,
Cybotron,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bad Manners,
B.T. Express,
Brick,
PIL,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Tommy Roe,
The Names,
Khruangbin,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Silicon Teens,
Soul Sonic Force,
Aaron Thompson,
David Axelrod,
The Martian,
Skriet,
Cheater Slicks,
Mandrill,
Quantec,
John Lydon,
Delta 5,
Byron Stingily,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Peter & Gordon,
Freddie Wadling,
The Wake,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dark Day,
Excepter,
Minutemen,
R.M.O.,
Essential Logic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lucky Dragons,
Aswad,
Maurizio,
Franke,
Mad Mike,
Anakelly,
Alice Coltrane,
Maleditus Sound,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Skatalites,
L. Decosne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Neon Judgement,
The Seeds,
Eli Mardock,
Absolute Body Control,
Minor Threat,
Echospace,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.