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 Indonesia and from Manila.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Dorothy Ashby to the dance 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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slackers,
The Saints,
David Bowie,
Cymande,
Johnny Clarke,
Amon Düül,
Rosa Yemen,
Severed Heads,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Freddie Wadling,
Junior Murvin,
Hot Snakes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cecil Taylor,
Altered Images,
Bill Near,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Television Personalities,
The Knickerbockers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Average White Band,
Skriet,
UT,
Maurizio,
Easy Going,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rotary Connection,
Funkadelic,
Erasure,
The Standells,
K-Klass,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Count Five,
Ronan,
Sun Ra,
Unrelated Segments,
Amazonics,
The Fire Engines,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Buzzcocks,
The Gap Band,
Aloha Tigers,
the Germs,
Amon Düül II,
MDC,
The Raincoats,
Sex Pistols,
Scion,
Don Cherry,
Roxette,
Organ,
Crispy Ambulance,
Janne Schatter,
Roxy Music,
Fat Boys,
Jacques Brel,
Kas Product,
Bobby Byrd,
Michelle Simonal,
Funky Four + One,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
U.S. Maple,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.