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 Argentina and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ken Boothe to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Simply Red record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Gregory Isaacs,
Archie Shepp,
Moebius,
Mary Jane Girls,
Todd Rundgren,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Seeds,
Jeff Mills,
The Moleskins,
Wolf Eyes,
the Slits,
The Smiths,
Blake Baxter,
ABBA,
The Busters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Mr. Review,
Rites of Spring,
The New Christs,
The Cure,
Sonic Youth,
Jandek,
The Skatalites,
The Names,
Q and Not U,
Excepter,
Chris & Cosey,
Boz Scaggs,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sam Rivers,
Flamin' Groovies,
Michelle Simonal,
Depeche Mode,
X-Ray Spex,
Terrestrial Tones,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bobby Womack,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Residents,
Los Fastidios,
Eden Ahbez,
Slave,
Ultra Naté,
Livin' Joy,
Fear,
KRS-One,
The Toasters,
Eric Dolphy,
Bauhaus,
Heaven 17,
Peter & Gordon,
Judy Mowatt,
The Angels of Light,
Underground Resistance,
The Moody Blues,
Metal Thangz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.