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 China and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rosa Yemen to the disco 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Godley & Creme,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Offenders,
Parry Music,
Arab on Radar,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Blues Magoos,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Detroit Cobras,
Crispian St. Peters,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Thee Headcoats,
Aloha Tigers,
Animal Collective,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Alton Ellis,
Soul Sonic Force,
Con Funk Shun,
Morten Harket,
Amon Düül,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Residents,
Kenny Larkin,
The Tremeloes,
Magazine,
The United States of America,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Avey Tare,
the Fania All-Stars,
Amon Düül II,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marshall Jefferson,
PIL,
Maleditus Sound,
Malaria!,
Hardrive,
Nation of Ulysses,
Reuben Wilson,
DJ Sneak,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Monochrome Set,
R.M.O.,
Eli Mardock,
The Dirtbombs,
Eden Ahbez,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Searchers,
Fugazi,
The Cowsills,
Au Pairs,
Thompson Twins,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gichy Dan,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Beau Brummels,
Pulsallama,
Andrew Hill,
Lyres,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.