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 Jordan 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the oboe 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 Radiohead to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Porter Ricks,
Desert Stars,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Unwound,
Magma,
Mad Mike,
The Selecter,
The Mummies,
Barrington Levy,
Siglo XX,
Gong,
Bill Near,
Letta Mbulu,
D'Angelo,
Donny Hathaway,
Gang Green,
Morten Harket,
Country Teasers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Eurythmics,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Alice Coltrane,
Laurel Aitken,
The Gories,
The J.B.'s,
Drive Like Jehu,
Television,
Davy DMX,
Yaz,
Sparks,
Average White Band,
Tres Demented,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lightning Bolt,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Royal Trux,
Marvin Gaye,
F. McDonald,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Anakelly,
The Techniques,
Warsaw,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alison Limerick,
Wasted Youth,
Ohio Players,
Spoonie Gee,
The Doors,
Barry Ungar,
The New Christs,
Banda Bassotti,
The Moody Blues,
The Young Rascals,
Donald Byrd,
The Gladiators,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Qualms,
Monolake,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Gap Band,
Blancmange,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.