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 Solomon Islands and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Josef K to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Eddi Front,
Clear Light,
Altered Images,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Blues Magoos,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
MC5,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Hot Snakes,
Ronnie Foster,
Dawn Penn,
Soft Machine,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bobby Byrd,
Matthew Halsall,
Radiohead,
Intrusion,
The Vogues,
Loose Ends,
Moss Icon,
Silicon Teens,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joyce Sims,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Sonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Detroit Cobras,
Nik Kershaw,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ralphi Rosario,
AZ,
Quando Quango,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Magma,
The Index,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
FM Einheit,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Alice Coltrane,
Agitation Free,
Donny Hathaway,
The Electric Prunes,
Nas,
Gerry Rafferty,
Young Marble Giants,
Theoretical Girls,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jeff Lynne,
The Associates,
Flamin' Groovies,
Radiopuhelimet,
DJ Style,
the Bar-Kays,
Kas Product,
The Techniques,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.