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 the UAE and from Mumbai.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alison Limerick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
ABBA,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Massinfluence,
This Heat,
Lou Christie,
New Order,
The J.B.'s,
Swell Maps,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
a-ha,
Judy Mowatt,
Kayak,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ponytail,
KRS-One,
Sugar Minott,
Man Parrish,
Nik Kershaw,
Marvin Gaye,
Radiohead,
Smog,
Black Bananas,
F. McDonald,
Eurythmics,
Joy Division,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Leaves,
Absolute Body Control,
The American Breed,
The Modern Lovers,
Ludus,
Rekid,
Ronnie Foster,
Harmonia,
The Pop Group,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Residents,
Rapeman,
Ultra Naté,
Toni Rubio,
Stiv Bators,
Gang Gang Dance,
Qualms,
Franke,
Rod Modell,
Gang Starr,
David Axelrod,
The Fugs,
Altered Images,
Colin Newman,
Jeff Mills,
Neil Young,
Pantaleimon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Sheep,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.