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 Kuwait and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Todd Terry to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Index. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers 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 dance 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 clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Slick Rick,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Spoonie Gee,
One Last Wish,
Negative Approach,
the Human League,
Jacob Miller,
Kool Moe Dee,
Alton Ellis,
MC5,
Swans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Scratch Acid,
Magazine,
Moebius,
Freddie Wadling,
Carl Craig,
Minor Threat,
John Coltrane,
Stiv Bators,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sonic Youth,
Excepter,
Marine Girls,
The Moody Blues,
Ronan,
Junior Murvin,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
China Crisis,
Essential Logic,
Judy Mowatt,
Zapp,
10cc,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jawbox,
the Germs,
Lakeside,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Funkadelic,
Joe Finger,
Niagra,
Crooked Eye,
Television,
The Modern Lovers,
Supertramp,
Soul Sonic Force,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Hoover,
Kayak,
Fatback Band,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Angry Samoans,
Wolf Eyes,
Deakin,
Man Parrish,
The Fuzztones,
The Searchers,
Section 25,
The Fire Engines,
The Trojans,
Bauhaus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.