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 Cameroon and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin 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 Young Rascals to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oneida,
the Association,
Rites of Spring,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Outsiders,
MC5,
Siglo XX,
Spandau Ballet,
Reagan Youth,
the Sonics,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tres Demented,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Prince Buster,
Amazonics,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Country Teasers,
The Red Krayola,
Hoover,
Pantytec,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Human League,
The Cowsills,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rosa Yemen,
Rhythm & Sound,
Amon Düül,
Liliput,
Dennis Brown,
Shoche,
The Alarm Clocks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ornette Coleman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeru the Damaja,
Brass Construction,
The Count Five,
Matthew Bourne,
Rakim,
Mo-Dettes,
Duran Duran,
Ultra Naté,
Man Eating Sloth,
Toni Rubio,
Hashim,
KRS-One,
The Tremeloes,
Whodini,
Cybotron,
FM Einheit,
B.T. Express,
Cluster,
The Human League,
Negative Approach,
Minor Threat,
Tubeway Army,
Faust,
Sugar Minott,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.