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 New Zealand and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 snare 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 Soul II Soul to the rap 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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Altered Images,
Ronan,
Isaac Hayes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Visage,
Minnie Riperton,
U.S. Maple,
Bootsy Collins,
Livin' Joy,
Neil Young,
The Cramps,
Negative Approach,
The Black Dice,
The United States of America,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Normal,
Zapp,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Severed Heads,
The Dead C,
Alton Ellis,
Rites of Spring,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Urselle,
John Cale,
Arthur Verocai,
The Names,
Chrome,
Con Funk Shun,
Lindisfarne,
Rufus Thomas,
New Age Steppers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Depeche Mode,
June of 44,
The Seeds,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Unrelated Segments,
Ludus,
Peter and Kerry,
Blossom Toes,
Oneida,
Mandrill,
Skarface,
Susan Cadogan,
The Human League,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Remains,
Amazonics,
Pulsallama,
Pagans,
Metal Thangz,
Ralphi Rosario,
Subhumans,
Eddi Front,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
David McCallum,
Excepter,
The Fuzztones,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.