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 Czech Republic and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the grunge 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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Barclay James Harvest tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Chrome,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ituana,
Tres Demented,
The Alarm Clocks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Glambeats Corp.,
Half Japanese,
Letta Mbulu,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Wake,
Davy DMX,
Saccharine Trust,
the Soft Cell,
Faraquet,
The Seeds,
Kerri Chandler,
D'Angelo,
Clear Light,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mantronix,
Charles Mingus,
The Residents,
Silicon Teens,
Junior Murvin,
Bizarre Inc.,
ABBA,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Dark Day,
The Walker Brothers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jeff Lynne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Slave,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Hoover,
The Names,
Amazonics,
Y Pants,
Hasil Adkins,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Amon Düül,
Ohio Players,
Don Cherry,
Funky Four + One,
The Grass Roots,
Q and Not U,
Lyres,
Prince Buster,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Echospace,
Talk Talk,
Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring.
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.