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 Luxembourg and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 güiro 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 The Seeds to the crunk 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Nirvana,
Fela Kuti,
The Index,
Gerry Rafferty,
David McCallum,
Animal Collective,
Icehouse,
Mo-Dettes,
Public Enemy,
Lou Reed,
The Vogues,
John Foxx,
Rufus Thomas,
UT,
Thompson Twins,
The Zeros,
Aloha Tigers,
Gong,
Nik Kershaw,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Five Americans,
Althea and Donna,
Zero Boys,
Youth Brigade,
Quando Quango,
Soft Machine,
Kayak,
Peter and Kerry,
Jimmy McGriff,
kango's stein massive,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
48th St. Collective,
Marvin Gaye,
Freddie Wadling,
Popol Vuh,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Yusef Lateef,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Last Poets,
Los Fastidios,
Mars,
Lucky Dragons,
Don Cherry,
Pharoah Sanders,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Piero Umiliani,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Howard Jones,
the Bar-Kays,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Interpol,
Make Up,
The Kinks,
Soulsonic Force,
Suburban Knight,
Robert Görl,
Scrapy,
The Moody Blues,
LL Cool J,
Smog,
Symarip, Symarip, Symarip, Symarip.
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.