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 Cyprus and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
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 Skaos to the crunk 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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 48th St. Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
Scratch Acid,
Das Ding,
The Slits,
Minutemen,
ABC,
The Dead C,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gang Green,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lou Christie,
Nick Fraelich,
Animal Collective,
Lightning Bolt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Blancmange,
Flamin' Groovies,
Wasted Youth,
Warsaw,
Pagans,
The Five Americans,
Fear,
Juan Atkins,
The Toasters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bootsy Collins,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scott Walker,
Toni Rubio,
Black Bananas,
FM Einheit,
Popol Vuh,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Sound,
Drexciya,
Smog,
Rosa Yemen,
Ituana,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Avey Tare,
La Düsseldorf,
Johnny Osbourne,
AZ,
The Birthday Party,
Gabor Szabo,
Cameo,
Negative Approach,
The Golliwogs,
Isaac Hayes,
Desert Stars,
Faraquet,
Sound Behaviour,
Symarip,
Iggy Pop,
Rakim,
Newcleus,
Country Teasers,
Skarface,
Jimmy McGriff,
Masters at Work,
Procol Harum,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.