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 Russia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Toronto.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Public Enemy to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Motorama,
Soul II Soul,
The Blues Magoos,
Rod Modell,
Loose Ends,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Yaz,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Doors,
Joy Division,
Black Moon,
Pussy Galore,
Mark Hollis,
Echospace,
The Residents,
The Names,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pulsallama,
Andrew Hill,
Tropical Tobacco,
Agitation Free,
cv313,
Brand Nubian,
Joey Negro,
The Mummies,
Bobby Womack,
Marmalade,
The Zeros,
Pagans,
Ultravox,
Chrome,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
R.M.O.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Reuben Wilson,
Sexual Harrassment,
Henry Cow,
the Human League,
Alison Limerick,
Outsiders,
Wally Richardson,
Peter and Kerry,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dennis Brown,
Aswad,
Warren Ellis,
Fluxion,
Suicide,
Pierre Henry,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lower 48,
The Skatalites,
Schoolly D,
Whodini,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gabor Szabo,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.