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 Eritrea and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Dennis Brown to the funk 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
The Vogues,
One Last Wish,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
K-Klass,
Yaz,
Adolescents,
New Order,
Aural Exciters,
The Electric Prunes,
Roger Hodgson,
UT,
F. McDonald,
Procol Harum,
Oblivians,
Soul Sonic Force,
Chrome,
Tommy Roe,
Anakelly,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lightning Bolt,
Flash Fearless,
Nils Olav,
Johnny Clarke,
The Cramps,
Jerry's Kids,
The Last Poets,
Lee Hazlewood,
Main Source,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Juan Atkins,
Black Pus,
Malaria!,
Deakin,
kango's stein massive,
Tim Buckley,
David McCallum,
The Saints,
Arcadia,
Johnny Osbourne,
Faust,
The Raincoats,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Mighty Diamonds,
the Association,
The Stooges,
Eric B and Rakim,
Stetsasonic,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bush Tetras,
The Moody Blues,
Moby Grape,
Aaron Thompson,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Swans,
Shoche,
Pere Ubu,
The Mummies,
John Lydon,
Roxy Music,
The Cure,
Max Romeo,
Sonic Youth,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.