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 Kiribati and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Madrid.
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 sitar 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 Delon & Dalcan to the punk 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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
Nirvana,
Piero Umiliani,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Severed Heads,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eric B and Rakim,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Neon Judgement,
The Last Poets,
Hashim,
Basic Channel,
Lakeside,
Rotary Connection,
Black Flag,
Kayak,
A Certain Ratio,
The Raincoats,
Scion,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Scrapy,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sun Ra,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Minnie Riperton,
Joy Division,
John Coltrane,
Ken Boothe,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Suicide,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Joensuu 1685,
The Happenings,
Funkadelic,
Rakim,
Niagra,
H. Thieme,
The Stooges,
Warren Ellis,
The Red Krayola,
Pagans,
Flipper,
Funky Four + One,
The Buckinghams,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sonny Sharrock,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Star Department,
UT,
Ronan,
Nico,
Erykah Badu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Television,
Tubeway Army,
F. McDonald,
Joyce Sims,
The Techniques,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.