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 Bhutan and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 mellotron 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 Soul II Soul to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
The Stooges,
Joe Smooth,
Bill Wells,
Rufus Thomas,
Thompson Twins,
Outsiders,
Sight & Sound,
EPMD,
Joey Negro,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ohio Players,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Tubeway Army,
The Walker Brothers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Von Mondo,
Johnny Clarke,
The Tremeloes,
Stetsasonic,
Bootsy Collins,
U.S. Maple,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Toasters,
Eve St. Jones,
Davy DMX,
Sam Rivers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Wire,
The Doobie Brothers,
Althea and Donna,
Lou Reed,
Cymande,
Slave,
Sarah Menescal,
Panda Bear,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Moleskins,
Tim Buckley,
Rakim,
Vainqueur,
MC5,
Deepchord,
The Mojo Men,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Associates,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Siglo XX,
The Happenings,
Hoover,
Barbara Tucker,
The Invisible,
John Coltrane,
Stiv Bators,
Robert Wyatt,
Country Teasers,
Heaven 17,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.