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 Oman and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the funk 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 The Evens. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smoke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Robert Görl,
Eric Dolphy,
The Raincoats,
David McCallum,
Yellowson,
MDC,
H. Thieme,
Siglo XX,
T. Rex,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lucky Dragons,
Accadde A,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Patti Smith,
Yusef Lateef,
Godley & Creme,
Parry Music,
Sarah Menescal,
John Foxx,
Zapp,
Curtis Mayfield,
Morten Harket,
Frankie Knuckles,
Susan Cadogan,
The Monochrome Set,
China Crisis,
Moebius,
Magazine,
Tubeway Army,
Monolake,
The J.B.'s,
Scratch Acid,
Hashim,
The Kinks,
The Smiths,
Alton Ellis,
The Cowsills,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nick Fraelich,
Absolute Body Control,
Oneida,
Bootsy Collins,
Flash Fearless,
DJ Sneak,
The Happenings,
ABC,
Arthur Verocai,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Dark Day,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Motions,
Scrapy,
Television Personalities,
Rufus Thomas,
Sam Rivers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Section 25,
Boogie Down Productions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.