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 Qatar and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Saints to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Charles Mingus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Underground Resistance,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lungfish,
The Cowsills,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joyce Sims,
One Last Wish,
The American Breed,
Arthur Verocai,
Dawn Penn,
Public Enemy,
The Walker Brothers,
Liliput,
The Blackbyrds,
The United States of America,
The Last Poets,
Bootsy Collins,
The Electric Prunes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Schoolly D,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sister Nancy,
AZ,
Flipper,
China Crisis,
Soft Cell,
Scratch Acid,
cv313,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Soul Sonic Force,
48th St. Collective,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Swans,
Piero Umiliani,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Monks,
The Fire Engines,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Brass Construction,
Country Teasers,
the Fania All-Stars,
Supertramp,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Steve Hackett,
The Durutti Column,
The Young Rascals,
A Certain Ratio,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Soft Machine,
Grandmaster Flash,
Matthew Bourne,
Aloha Tigers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.