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 Comoros and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Robert Hood to the disco 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Althea and Donna,
Pagans,
Dave Gahan,
Ituana,
Danielle Patucci,
Outsiders,
Rod Modell,
In Retrospect,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Associates,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pulsallama,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bob Dylan,
David McCallum,
Barry Ungar,
Alphaville,
The Beau Brummels,
The Pop Group,
Royal Trux,
Index,
Max Romeo,
Accadde A,
The Blackbyrds,
Nik Kershaw,
Goldenarms,
Jesper Dahlback,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bootsy Collins,
Eve St. Jones,
Oblivians,
The Smiths,
Public Enemy,
cv313,
Panda Bear,
Wire,
Cecil Taylor,
Suicide,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Symarip,
The Standells,
Chrome,
Infiniti,
Spandau Ballet,
Alice Coltrane,
Slave,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Slackers,
Con Funk Shun,
Zapp,
Mad Mike,
The Cure,
A Flock of Seagulls,
K-Klass,
Main Source,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.