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 Switzerland and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Selecter to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Monolake,
Erykah Badu,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fear,
Wings,
The Motions,
Traffic Nightmare,
Carl Craig,
John Lydon,
Country Teasers,
Suburban Knight,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Juan Atkins,
The Seeds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Fortunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Loose Ends,
Blancmange,
Lower 48,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jacques Brel,
Organ,
Quando Quango,
Stockholm Monsters,
Shoche,
Deadbeat,
Echospace,
Eurythmics,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Slackers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dennis Brown,
Pole,
Pylon,
Buzzcocks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Siglo XX,
the Normal,
the Fania All-Stars,
One Last Wish,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kurtis Blow,
Pussy Galore,
The Dirtbombs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Skarface,
Bill Wells,
The Moleskins,
The Sound,
The Slits,
The Standells,
Mars,
Charles Mingus,
Gastr Del Sol,
Brand Nubian,
The Fugs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
These Immortal Souls,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.