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 Egypt and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and London.
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 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 Intrusion to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Idris Muhammad,
Pere Ubu,
L. Decosne,
Todd Terry,
Sexual Harrassment,
Dead Boys,
a-ha,
Iggy Pop,
10cc,
FM Einheit,
Tim Buckley,
Bang On A Can,
Mark Hollis,
MC5,
Scratch Acid,
EPMD,
The Star Department,
Ituana,
D'Angelo,
The Sound,
Gabor Szabo,
Leonard Cohen,
kango's stein massive,
Porter Ricks,
Archie Shepp,
H. Thieme,
John Foxx,
Nick Fraelich,
Josef K,
John Holt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pet Shop Boys,
Black Sheep,
The Gladiators,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Deadbeat,
Amazonics,
The Invisible,
Glambeats Corp.,
Whodini,
The Real Kids,
Scott Walker,
Brand Nubian,
Popol Vuh,
Scientists,
David Bowie,
Bill Wells,
Shuggie Otis,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sparks,
the Bar-Kays,
Young Marble Giants,
Sister Nancy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bizarre Inc.,
Youth Brigade,
June of 44,
B.T. Express,
Derrick May,
T.S.O.L.,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.