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 Malawi and from Taipei.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Harmonia to the rock 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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultimate Spinach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispian St. Peters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Trumans Water,
Ralphi Rosario,
Newcleus,
Arthur Verocai,
Ituana,
Motorama,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fuzztones,
A Certain Ratio,
Dual Sessions,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sixth Finger,
UT,
The Mojo Men,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fat Boys,
Fluxion,
June Days,
Gil Scott Heron,
Radiohead,
Nick Fraelich,
Tomorrow,
Sunsets and Hearts,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Crime,
The Kinks,
Eli Mardock,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Big Daddy Kane,
Stereo Dub,
The Fortunes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Doors,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scott Walker,
Bobby Sherman,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Crispy Ambulance,
John Coltrane,
Dennis Brown,
the Bar-Kays,
The Young Rascals,
Masters at Work,
Schoolly D,
John Lydon,
Marine Girls,
The Gories,
Index,
Wings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Laurel Aitken,
Joe Finger,
Agent Orange,
Spoonie Gee,
the Association,
Lee Hazlewood,
Fad Gadget,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Crooked Eye,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.