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 Germany and from Woodstock.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Whodini to the funk 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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stockholm Monsters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The J.B.'s,
Jerry's Kids,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gil Scott Heron,
Gerry Rafferty,
Panda Bear,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Blancmange,
Bluetip,
Duran Duran,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Fatback Band,
Black Moon,
MC5,
John Foxx,
Negative Approach,
Brick,
Erykah Badu,
LL Cool J,
CMW,
Pantytec,
Matthew Bourne,
Oblivians,
Nick Fraelich,
Swans,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Slits,
Little Man,
Al Stewart,
Fad Gadget,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Prince Buster,
Basic Channel,
Jeff Mills,
The Fugs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fear,
Absolute Body Control,
John Cale,
The Names,
Yellowson,
Dead Boys,
Freddie Wadling,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kaleidoscope,
Brothers Johnson,
Country Teasers,
Gong,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hardrive,
Stereo Dub,
Youth Brigade,
KRS-One,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Arthur Verocai,
Fluxion,
Oneida,
Johnny Clarke,
Jawbox,
Bill Wells,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.