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 United Kingdom and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Happenings to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Smoke. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Urselle,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Zeros,
The Young Rascals,
Moss Icon,
The Gories,
Rapeman,
48th St. Collective,
The Fortunes,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bronski Beat,
Brothers Johnson,
The Leaves,
Grey Daturas,
The Names,
a-ha,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Unwound,
Eric Dolphy,
Wasted Youth,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Silicon Teens,
Aural Exciters,
DNA,
Dual Sessions,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Simply Red,
Sixth Finger,
Lightning Bolt,
H. Thieme,
The Remains,
Oneida,
F. McDonald,
Aloha Tigers,
Lakeside,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tres Demented,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Happenings,
Fat Boys,
Popol Vuh,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alphaville,
Quadrant,
Jawbox,
Pole,
The Last Poets,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Los Fastidios,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Donald Byrd,
The Standells,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lower 48,
The Move,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Womack,
Bob Dylan,
Sällskapet,
Von Mondo,
Heaven 17,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.