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 Bulgaria and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Robert Palmer 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 The Busters to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Infiniti,
Scion,
The Leaves,
Drexciya,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Raincoats,
MC5,
Joy Division,
The Misunderstood,
Brass Construction,
Bobby Byrd,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ken Boothe,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Cowsills,
John Coltrane,
The Cramps,
PIL,
Rakim,
DJ Sneak,
Lightning Bolt,
Marc Almond,
The Kinks,
Anthony Braxton,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Names,
Television,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Wolf Eyes,
Kas Product,
Country Teasers,
Monolake,
Oneida,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mandrill,
Crash Course in Science,
Scan 7,
F. McDonald,
Lakeside,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jerry's Kids,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
JFA,
Fatback Band,
Bobby Womack,
Radio Birdman,
Donny Hathaway,
OOIOO,
Joe Smooth,
Average White Band,
Rekid,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Wake,
Josef K,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mantronix,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.