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 Madagascar and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Urselle to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gang Starr. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Qualms,
DNA,
Babytalk,
Skriet,
Von Mondo,
Main Source,
Radiohead,
Nirvana,
Livin' Joy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Camberwell Now,
The Raincoats,
Tres Demented,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Grey Daturas,
The Zeros,
LL Cool J,
Fugazi,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Danielle Patucci,
The Mummies,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dark Day,
Los Fastidios,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Johnny Clarke,
Tropical Tobacco,
Dead Boys,
Anthony Braxton,
Marvin Gaye,
Silicon Teens,
Gichy Dan,
Erykah Badu,
Hashim,
Minutemen,
Sonic Youth,
Alton Ellis,
The Residents,
The Litter,
Depeche Mode,
Black Sheep,
the Soft Cell,
MDC,
The Doors,
Yellowson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Chris & Cosey,
Cluster,
Leonard Cohen,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ultra Naté,
Minor Threat,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Cure,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lee Hazlewood,
Arthur Verocai,
Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro.
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.