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 Uruguay and from Beijing.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 London Community Gospel Choir to the rap 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scientists record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Leaves,
Symarip,
Section 25,
Avey Tare,
Pylon,
World's Most,
Gang Green,
Chrome,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Andrew Hill,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Saints,
Al Stewart,
Bootsy Collins,
Interpol,
Darondo,
Godley & Creme,
Aloha Tigers,
Peter & Gordon,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Minor Threat,
the Germs,
Technova,
Jacob Miller,
Depeche Mode,
The Neon Judgement,
Althea and Donna,
Steve Hackett,
Eric Dolphy,
Japan,
Ultimate Spinach,
Reuben Wilson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Moss Icon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Davy DMX,
Camberwell Now,
Neil Young,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Moleskins,
Index,
Radiohead,
Boredoms,
Supertramp,
The Monks,
Pulsallama,
The Techniques,
Fat Boys,
Kool Moe Dee,
Barrington Levy,
Tim Buckley,
Qualms,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Thee Headcoats,
The Buckinghams,
Kerri Chandler,
Q and Not U,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.