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 Burkina 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Country Teasers to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Offenders. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
The Fuzztones,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Amon Düül,
Jeff Mills,
Boogie Down Productions,
Crispian St. Peters,
Al Stewart,
Country Teasers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Pop Group,
The Gories,
Janne Schatter,
The Count Five,
Bill Near,
Angry Samoans,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gong,
Chris & Cosey,
Fatback Band,
Minny Pops,
Crime,
Andrew Hill,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Funky Four + One,
Unwound,
Brick,
Shoche,
Thompson Twins,
The Doors,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
T.S.O.L.,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wasted Youth,
The Doobie Brothers,
Hasil Adkins,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Livin' Joy,
The Standells,
Wire,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Association,
Trumans Water,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
June Days,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Glambeats Corp.,
Crooked Eye,
Iggy Pop,
The Sonics,
Lindisfarne,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scott Walker,
Aaron Thompson,
Alton Ellis,
Ronan,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Skaos,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
JFA,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.