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 Vanuatu and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Germs to the rap 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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT 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 '70s 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 Scrapy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The New Christs,
Kenny Larkin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Thompson Twins,
Harpers Bizarre,
Magazine,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gregory Isaacs,
Icehouse,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Mantronix,
The Invisible,
Suicide,
Matthew Bourne,
The Offenders,
Joensuu 1685,
cv313,
The Modern Lovers,
Babytalk,
Idris Muhammad,
Talk Talk,
June Days,
Excepter,
R.M.O.,
One Last Wish,
The Trojans,
Alison Limerick,
Circle Jerks,
Loose Ends,
Arthur Verocai,
Von Mondo,
The Zeros,
Bobby Womack,
Sonic Youth,
Scrapy,
Television Personalities,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Accadde A,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Index,
Ken Boothe,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alton Ellis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lucky Dragons,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Mummies,
Yellowson,
Tim Buckley,
Radio Birdman,
Scratch Acid,
Bootsy Collins,
Gang Green,
Josef K,
Gang of Four,
Barrington Levy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Masters at Work,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.