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 Iceland and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Tubeway Army to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All The Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
The Seeds,
Skaos,
T.S.O.L.,
Unrelated Segments,
Carl Craig,
Ituana,
Black Sheep,
Soul II Soul,
Kevin Saunderson,
Section 25,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soft Machine,
The Kinks,
Massinfluence,
DJ Style,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Mojo Men,
Q and Not U,
Sandy B,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rosa Yemen,
The Motions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Essential Logic,
The Standells,
The Tremeloes,
H. Thieme,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kerri Chandler,
Trumans Water,
Livin' Joy,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Country Teasers,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jacques Brel,
The Last Poets,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Average White Band,
Tres Demented,
The Slackers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Hashim,
Aaron Thompson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Scratch Acid,
Tears for Fears,
Warsaw,
Boogie Down Productions,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Human League,
Cluster,
Flash Fearless,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Hot Snakes,
Zapp,
Sexual Harrassment,
Harpers Bizarre,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Soft Cell,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.