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 Kazakhstan and from Tehran.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Gastr Del Sol 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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fall,
Echospace,
Alison Limerick,
The Grass Roots,
Scientists,
Fatback Band,
Simply Red,
The Modern Lovers,
DJ Style,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nico,
cv313,
Aswad,
Gil Scott Heron,
Vainqueur,
Stetsasonic,
Toni Rubio,
Fear,
Warren Ellis,
Barclay James Harvest,
Mary Jane Girls,
Al Stewart,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Agent Orange,
Mandrill,
Loose Ends,
The Fortunes,
Wally Richardson,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dark Day,
Peter and Kerry,
Ornette Coleman,
Adolescents,
Blossom Toes,
ABBA,
The Smoke,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jandek,
Spoonie Gee,
Groovy Waters,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
New Order,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
These Immortal Souls,
JFA,
The Dirtbombs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fad Gadget,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Davy DMX,
Leonard Cohen,
L. Decosne,
The Names,
The Cure,
The Toasters,
Kurtis Blow,
Oblivians,
Tomorrow,
Johnny Clarke,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Barracudas,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.