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 Australia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 güiro 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 Gap Band to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Patti Smith. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Remains record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
The Music Machine,
Cameo,
Easy Going,
Royal Trux,
Robert Wyatt,
The Electric Prunes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
David Axelrod,
Neil Young,
Spandau Ballet,
Tubeway Army,
Funkadelic,
Glambeats Corp.,
Zero Boys,
Jandek,
Banda Bassotti,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
New York Dolls,
Warren Ellis,
Chrome,
The Neon Judgement,
The Trojans,
Leonard Cohen,
Ken Boothe,
10cc,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sarah Menescal,
Susan Cadogan,
The Five Americans,
Gang Starr,
Public Image Ltd.,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Velvet Underground,
The Kinks,
Harry Pussy,
Hasil Adkins,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Iggy Pop,
Pantytec,
Jacques Brel,
Chris Corsano,
Jimmy McGriff,
Idris Muhammad,
John Coltrane,
Black Flag,
Oneida,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Erasure,
Quantec,
Minor Threat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ten City,
Yusef Lateef,
Ultravox,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.