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 Norway and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Eden Ahbez to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
LL Cool J,
H. Thieme,
Johnny Osbourne,
Oneida,
The United States of America,
Max Romeo,
John Lydon,
Eden Ahbez,
The Sound,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Scrapy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Flesh Eaters,
Scientists,
Accadde A,
Adolescents,
Marshall Jefferson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gastr Del Sol,
Qualms,
Negative Approach,
The Smoke,
Kaleidoscope,
Fear,
Tears for Fears,
Blake Baxter,
The Pop Group,
Los Fastidios,
Fela Kuti,
Barrington Levy,
Camouflage,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jimmy McGriff,
MDC,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Cramps,
Jeru the Damaja,
Reagan Youth,
The Slackers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joy Division,
Soft Machine,
One Last Wish,
Monolake,
Nick Fraelich,
Ludus,
the Normal,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Vogues,
Gang Green,
The Moody Blues,
Sarah Menescal,
Talk Talk,
Warsaw,
Avey Tare,
Boz Scaggs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.