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 Albania and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ 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 Country Teasers to the techno 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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Popol Vuh tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
OOIOO,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Doors,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Circle Jerks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Human League,
Banda Bassotti,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Josef K,
Mr. Review,
The Skatalites,
Youth Brigade,
Alison Limerick,
Symarip,
Second Layer,
Kayak,
Harmonia,
The Invisible,
UT,
Whodini,
Young Marble Giants,
Ossler,
The Moody Blues,
The Star Department,
Aloha Tigers,
Darondo,
John Lydon,
Eden Ahbez,
CMW,
Ohio Players,
Rites of Spring,
Rhythm & Sound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dark Day,
Camberwell Now,
Buzzcocks,
Erasure,
The Moleskins,
Todd Rundgren,
Unrelated Segments,
Swans,
X-101,
Moebius,
Sixth Finger,
The Gap Band,
Joensuu 1685,
Pagans,
Joy Division,
Quando Quango,
Fluxion,
Peter and Kerry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lalann,
Judy Mowatt,
Funkadelic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.