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 Korea North and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare 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 Metal Thangz to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bizarre Inc.,
Thompson Twins,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The New Christs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Josef K,
Basic Channel,
Rotary Connection,
Suburban Knight,
Mr. Review,
Danielle Patucci,
Rites of Spring,
Pulsallama,
Masters at Work,
The Cramps,
Tim Buckley,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Sonics,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Knickerbockers,
Alice Coltrane,
Wally Richardson,
10cc,
Vainqueur,
Porter Ricks,
a-ha,
Anakelly,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bill Wells,
Q and Not U,
Boz Scaggs,
Scott Walker,
Ornette Coleman,
Jeff Mills,
James White and The Blacks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Model 500,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bill Near,
The Birthday Party,
Deadbeat,
Nirvana,
Terrestrial Tones,
This Heat,
Visage,
Funky Four + One,
Roxette,
Cameo,
Reagan Youth,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Don Cherry,
Soft Cell,
Prince Buster,
OOIOO,
Jacob Miller,
Eurythmics,
Nation of Ulysses,
Crooked Eye,
The Grass Roots,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.