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 Barbados and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 chamberlin 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 E-Dancer to the grime 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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All The Gladiators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Rotary Connection,
Crispy Ambulance,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Real Kids,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fatback Band,
Livin' Joy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Vainqueur,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Brick,
The Names,
Amon Düül II,
Urselle,
The Electric Prunes,
the Association,
Aswad,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
FM Einheit,
Lalann,
John Holt,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ornette Coleman,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eli Mardock,
Derrick Morgan,
James White and The Blacks,
Alphaville,
Lou Reed,
Interpol,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cal Tjader,
The Black Dice,
Marc Almond,
Television,
Duran Duran,
Schoolly D,
Junior Murvin,
Oneida,
Accadde A,
The Busters,
The Shadows of Knight,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Byron Stingily,
Steve Hackett,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jeff Mills,
Goldenarms,
Lindisfarne,
The American Breed,
Mad Mike,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bootsy Collins,
Matthew Bourne,
Yazoo,
Arthur Verocai,
Prince Buster,
Moss Icon,
The Tremeloes,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.