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 Malta and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Shanghai.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Wally Richardson to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Funky Four + One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ 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 rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
The Kinks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
CMW,
Arthur Verocai,
John Coltrane,
LL Cool J,
Essential Logic,
Robert Wyatt,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Scratch Acid,
Technova,
Tommy Roe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Skarface,
Steve Hackett,
Sugar Minott,
Swans,
Yellowson,
The Young Rascals,
Silicon Teens,
Robert Hood,
Marvin Gaye,
Marine Girls,
Ten City,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Aswad,
Sandy B,
Gang Gang Dance,
Blancmange,
Skaos,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ice-T,
Sixth Finger,
Joe Finger,
Soulsonic Force,
Sarah Menescal,
Glambeats Corp.,
Reuben Wilson,
Panda Bear,
Ohio Players,
Peter & Gordon,
Unrelated Segments,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kerri Chandler,
Cybotron,
Desert Stars,
Janne Schatter,
Man Eating Sloth,
Nils Olav,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Joy Division,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Blackbyrds,
Fela Kuti,
The Sonics,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Todd Terry,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.