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 Macedonia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Skatalites to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Sight & Sound,
Funkadelic,
10cc,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Zapp,
Grauzone,
Yusef Lateef,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jeff Lynne,
Symarip,
The Misunderstood,
Visage,
Amon Düül II,
Ronan,
Joy Division,
The Fortunes,
Aaron Thompson,
Suicide,
Black Moon,
The Selecter,
Urselle,
Intrusion,
Sixth Finger,
The Dave Clark Five,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ohio Players,
Sun City Girls,
Metal Thangz,
Negative Approach,
Ossler,
Maurizio,
the Normal,
Jandek,
Wolf Eyes,
Faraquet,
Animal Collective,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cymande,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Throbbing Gristle,
Main Source,
Brothers Johnson,
Joe Smooth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Buckinghams,
Kool Moe Dee,
Crispy Ambulance,
Blancmange,
David Bowie,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
D'Angelo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Soft Machine,
Fad Gadget,
Niagra,
Black Flag,
Godley & Creme,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rekid,
Panda Bear,
Kurtis Blow,
The Pop Group,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.