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 Niger and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Yazoo to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The United States of America record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
The Victims,
The Kinks,
Sister Nancy,
Curtis Mayfield,
World's Most,
Leonard Cohen,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Sonics,
Tim Buckley,
The Fugs,
Scientists,
Ronan,
Model 500,
Derrick Morgan,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Echospace,
the Soft Cell,
Zapp,
Aswad,
the Sonics,
Tears for Fears,
Fad Gadget,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Cramps,
Yaz,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lightning Bolt,
H. Thieme,
Alphaville,
Outsiders,
Avey Tare,
Tres Demented,
Little Man,
B.T. Express,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ponytail,
Gregory Isaacs,
Blancmange,
Symarip,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Barry Ungar,
Barrington Levy,
Basic Channel,
Pantaleimon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Dave Clark Five,
FM Einheit,
MC5,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Reagan Youth,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.