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 Colombia and from Manila.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Pulsallama to the punk 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
James White and The Blacks,
The Happenings,
Yazoo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Soul II Soul,
Country Teasers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Dead C,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gabor Szabo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Smoke,
Rotary Connection,
Bobby Sherman,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
F. McDonald,
Interpol,
Second Layer,
Theoretical Girls,
Scientists,
Kas Product,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Faraquet,
Kaleidoscope,
Dorothy Ashby,
Q and Not U,
Barry Ungar,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Japan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Alton Ellis,
Delon & Dalcan,
Can,
The Angels of Light,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Fire Engines,
The Moody Blues,
New Order,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
John Cale,
The Five Americans,
Amon Düül II,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Joe Smooth,
The Slackers,
Nas,
Section 25,
Jeff Mills,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Michelle Simonal,
Eden Ahbez,
Skriet,
Kayak,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Robert Hood,
Smog,
H. Thieme,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wolf Eyes,
Quantec,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.