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 Armenia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 clarinet 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 Selecter to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Eric Dolphy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pylon,
Negative Approach,
Quando Quango,
The Angels of Light,
The Gladiators,
Iggy Pop,
Bluetip,
Todd Rundgren,
Faraquet,
Connie Case,
Inner City,
The Selecter,
Jerry's Kids,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
L. Decosne,
Vainqueur,
Nils Olav,
Joy Division,
Cymande,
Alice Coltrane,
Infiniti,
Morten Harket,
The Black Dice,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Mantronix,
Heaven 17,
The Trojans,
Lakeside,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Alton Ellis,
The Cure,
Bad Manners,
Lee Hazlewood,
FM Einheit,
the Bar-Kays,
Alphaville,
Suburban Knight,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Surgeon,
Moss Icon,
T. Rex,
The Move,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Outsiders,
Con Funk Shun,
Grauzone,
The Skatalites,
The Seeds,
Robert Görl,
Shoche,
Y Pants,
The Smoke,
MC5,
The Blackbyrds,
Todd Terry,
Warren Ellis,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.