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 New Zealand and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Music Machine to the crunk 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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All The Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Sonics,
Zero Boys,
Warren Ellis,
The Count Five,
Suicide,
Gang of Four,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Marc Almond,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roy Ayers,
Drexciya,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Toni Rubio,
Boogie Down Productions,
Max Romeo,
Sound Behaviour,
Hot Snakes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Kerri Chandler,
The Fire Engines,
Dark Day,
L. Decosne,
Colin Newman,
Fad Gadget,
Fluxion,
Essential Logic,
Blossom Toes,
Arthur Verocai,
Chrome,
Cal Tjader,
Anakelly,
Bill Wells,
Harmonia,
Moss Icon,
Yazoo,
Mad Mike,
DNA,
Cluster,
Groovy Waters,
The Remains,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dorothy Ashby,
Robert Görl,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Junior Murvin,
T. Rex,
Todd Terry,
Jeru the Damaja,
Supertramp,
kango's stein massive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Anthony Braxton,
Public Enemy,
Accadde A,
Lindisfarne,
Ultimate Spinach,
Iggy Pop,
R.M.O.,
The Neon Judgement,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Amon Düül,
Nas,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.