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 Pakistan and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rakim,
Delta 5,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Leaves,
Newcleus,
Urselle,
Toni Rubio,
Essential Logic,
Icehouse,
Dark Day,
Jeff Mills,
Bronski Beat,
The Kinks,
Rotary Connection,
Dawn Penn,
Tommy Roe,
Supertramp,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Parry Music,
Black Pus,
Crime,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Alison Limerick,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Audionom,
Robert Wyatt,
The Barracudas,
Goldenarms,
Lebanon Hanover,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ponytail,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Robert Hood,
Fat Boys,
Michelle Simonal,
Letta Mbulu,
The Gladiators,
Monolake,
Crispy Ambulance,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Television Personalities,
Black Flag,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dual Sessions,
Mark Hollis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Real Kids,
The Monks,
Lower 48,
World's Most,
Unwound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Erasure,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Martian,
Funky Four + One,
Bill Near,
Qualms,
EPMD,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Smoke,
Tears for Fears,
Severed Heads,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.