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 Cape Verde and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Groovy Waters to the rap 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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lou Christie,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Dave Clark Five,
China Crisis,
Tears for Fears,
Mo-Dettes,
Ituana,
Slave,
Organ,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Moebius,
Pet Shop Boys,
Talk Talk,
The Gap Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Agitation Free,
Reuben Wilson,
the Normal,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Anakelly,
Heaven 17,
John Foxx,
The Fugs,
Ice-T,
The Remains,
Fatback Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rapeman,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Bar-Kays,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Boogie Down Productions,
Yaz,
Nick Fraelich,
Alton Ellis,
Peter and Kerry,
Tomorrow,
Eyeless In Gaza,
In Retrospect,
Sandy B,
Kas Product,
Ralphi Rosario,
8 Eyed Spy,
Harmonia,
the Human League,
The Flesh Eaters,
Wings,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marc Almond,
Model 500,
June of 44,
Absolute Body Control,
Mr. Review,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.