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 Korea South and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes 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 Sound Behaviour to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
Technova,
The New Christs,
ABC,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ultimate Spinach,
T.S.O.L.,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Evens,
Wasted Youth,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
New Age Steppers,
Thee Headcoats,
The Skatalites,
Crooked Eye,
Roxy Music,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rufus Thomas,
Mantronix,
The Dirtbombs,
Can,
Bronski Beat,
Smog,
Angry Samoans,
MC5,
Subhumans,
The Pretty Things,
The Sound,
June of 44,
Monks,
Harmonia,
Kevin Saunderson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
MDC,
the Sonics,
Negative Approach,
48th St. Collective,
Alison Limerick,
The Detroit Cobras,
Basic Channel,
The Raincoats,
John Holt,
Severed Heads,
The Blackbyrds,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sarah Menescal,
Neu!,
Man Parrish,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rosa Yemen,
Sister Nancy,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Fall,
Marcia Griffiths,
Arcadia,
CMW,
Tomorrow,
Visage,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.