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 Monaco and from Manila.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Jawbox to the funk 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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
FM Einheit,
The Moody Blues,
David Bowie,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Popol Vuh,
Darondo,
Joyce Sims,
Das Ding,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
John Coltrane,
Aaron Thompson,
Gang Starr,
Nick Fraelich,
MC5,
Minny Pops,
The Tremeloes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Neon Judgement,
Alton Ellis,
DJ Sneak,
New York Dolls,
Marmalade,
The Standells,
Cheater Slicks,
Massinfluence,
Bobby Sherman,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Letta Mbulu,
Blancmange,
Ken Boothe,
Porter Ricks,
Suicide,
Morten Harket,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Evens,
Fluxion,
The Cowsills,
Silicon Teens,
Tropical Tobacco,
Shuggie Otis,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Magazine,
Tom Boy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Chris & Cosey,
The Seeds,
The Toasters,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
L. Decosne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Visage,
Interpol,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dennis Brown,
Khruangbin,
Robert Hood,
The Young Rascals,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.