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 Indonesia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 rhodes 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 Ronan to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Soft Cell,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
48th St. Collective,
Adolescents,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Robert Wyatt,
Max Romeo,
Bill Wells,
The Music Machine,
Brand Nubian,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Chris Corsano,
Sister Nancy,
Pagans,
The Pretty Things,
Grey Daturas,
La Düsseldorf,
Andrew Hill,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dawn Penn,
Camberwell Now,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
PIL,
The Neon Judgement,
Smog,
Gabor Szabo,
The New Christs,
Intrusion,
Inner City,
Isaac Hayes,
Deakin,
Bluetip,
Ten City,
Soft Machine,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Busters,
Oneida,
Sarah Menescal,
Newcleus,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
EPMD,
Young Marble Giants,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Desert Stars,
Prince Buster,
Kerri Chandler,
Simply Red,
Kevin Saunderson,
Boz Scaggs,
Flamin' Groovies,
Monks,
The Fortunes,
the Bar-Kays,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
John Holt,
Mandrill,
The Doors,
Suicide,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bill Near,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.