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 the UAE and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Junior Murvin to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
Sun City Girls,
Grauzone,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cal Tjader,
Aural Exciters,
Underground Resistance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Section 25,
Jimmy McGriff,
Radiohead,
Hasil Adkins,
Motorama,
Eric Dolphy,
New Age Steppers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Flipper,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Smog,
The Remains,
Marshall Jefferson,
Drive Like Jehu,
Scion,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
MDC,
Bush Tetras,
The Grass Roots,
Slick Rick,
The Durutti Column,
Funkadelic,
Eve St. Jones,
Pierre Henry,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Absolute Body Control,
PIL,
Dawn Penn,
Thee Headcoats,
The Evens,
Minor Threat,
Visage,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lyres,
The Mighty Diamonds,
DNA,
Dual Sessions,
Drexciya,
Tim Buckley,
Sonic Youth,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The New Christs,
the Bar-Kays,
Erasure,
Eddi Front,
The Searchers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ludus,
Altered Images,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.