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 Nicaragua and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Portland.
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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Wings to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Last Poets 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sparks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Idris Muhammad,
DJ Style,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jandek,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dorothy Ashby,
Alphaville,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Oneida,
Dual Sessions,
John Lydon,
Cluster,
Flipper,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Last Poets,
Judy Mowatt,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pantaleimon,
Boredoms,
Reuben Wilson,
Gang Green,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
This Heat,
Jeru the Damaja,
Nik Kershaw,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Nas,
Ultravox,
Sparks,
Anakelly,
Young Marble Giants,
Leonard Cohen,
Q and Not U,
the Soft Cell,
L. Decosne,
Howard Jones,
Television,
The Associates,
Ponytail,
D'Angelo,
Minutemen,
Minnie Riperton,
Mission of Burma,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
James White and The Blacks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
X-101,
Amon Düül II,
The American Breed,
Bobby Womack,
Saccharine Trust,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Thompson Twins,
Nils Olav,
Tomorrow,
Man Parrish,
Minny Pops,
Deadbeat,
The Buckinghams,
Wire,
Livin' Joy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.