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 Bahrain and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Skatalites 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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Radiohead,
Reagan Youth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Severed Heads,
Alphaville,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Avey Tare,
Grauzone,
Minnie Riperton,
Erasure,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tom Boy,
Mantronix,
Joy Division,
The Walker Brothers,
Suicide,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Marvin Gaye,
Inner City,
Soft Cell,
The Searchers,
Sister Nancy,
Freddie Wadling,
Sonic Youth,
The Skatalites,
Pylon,
Alice Coltrane,
Amon Düül,
the Normal,
Sällskapet,
Sandy B,
Heaven 17,
Barry Ungar,
Bobby Womack,
Hashim,
Malaria!,
Suburban Knight,
The Index,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Moon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Amon Düül II,
Kurtis Blow,
The Five Americans,
The Music Machine,
Unrelated Segments,
Half Japanese,
Connie Case,
ABBA,
Scion,
David Axelrod,
Oneida,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Maleditus Sound,
H. Thieme,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Brick,
Mary Jane Girls,
Godley & Creme,
Average White Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Althea and Donna,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.