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 Luxembourg and from Stockholm.
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 Johannesburg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Khruangbin 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Davy DMX,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joyce Sims,
Moss Icon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fatback Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Birthday Party,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Basic Channel,
Arcadia,
The Selecter,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Soul Sonic Force,
Radiohead,
Spoonie Gee,
Model 500,
The Names,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Negative Approach,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Durutti Column,
Rapeman,
Dave Gahan,
Suicide,
The Index,
Donald Byrd,
Aswad,
Country Teasers,
Duran Duran,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sugar Minott,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Letta Mbulu,
Jeff Mills,
The Beau Brummels,
Shuggie Otis,
Eurythmics,
Susan Cadogan,
Magma,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Gladiators,
Kaleidoscope,
Pagans,
the Normal,
Sonny Sharrock,
Aaron Thompson,
DJ Style,
Faust,
Eddi Front,
The Offenders,
The Shadows of Knight,
Masters at Work,
Altered Images,
The Black Dice,
Cluster,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.