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 Dominica and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Mary Jane Girls to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Dennis Brown,
Soulsonic Force,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Alton Ellis,
Bluetip,
Rapeman,
Yaz,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Joy Division,
Dorothy Ashby,
Black Pus,
Barbara Tucker,
Kerri Chandler,
Bad Manners,
This Heat,
Moby Grape,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Patti Smith,
The Fortunes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Carl Craig,
Skaos,
the Germs,
Ohio Players,
Grandmaster Flash,
Soft Cell,
Roxy Music,
Skriet,
B.T. Express,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Flash Fearless,
the Association,
Nils Olav,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Organ,
Rekid,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ice-T,
Newcleus,
The New Christs,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
World's Most,
the Swans,
Sonic Youth,
The Misunderstood,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lou Christie,
The Dirtbombs,
The Fuzztones,
Ralphi Rosario,
Suburban Knight,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow.
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.