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 Lebanon and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bobby Womack to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sarah Menescal,
Loose Ends,
K-Klass,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ice-T,
Q and Not U,
The Sound,
Fear,
Michelle Simonal,
Pagans,
Sister Nancy,
Underground Resistance,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Durutti Column,
The Busters,
a-ha,
Mr. Review,
E-Dancer,
Bill Near,
Fluxion,
Soul Sonic Force,
CMW,
Mandrill,
Maleditus Sound,
Roxy Music,
Schoolly D,
Pierre Henry,
Nils Olav,
Black Moon,
Sun Ra,
The American Breed,
Lalo Schifrin,
OOIOO,
Metal Thangz,
Ohio Players,
Slick Rick,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Grauzone,
John Cale,
The Fugs,
D'Angelo,
Quando Quango,
KRS-One,
Todd Terry,
Donald Byrd,
Ultravox,
Dennis Brown,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Albert Ayler,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bad Manners,
Johnny Clarke,
Fugazi,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sun City Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.