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 Eritrea and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and New York.
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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Von Mondo to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Crooked Eye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
Godley & Creme,
Motorama,
Basic Channel,
Alphaville,
Mission of Burma,
Roy Ayers,
T. Rex,
Royal Trux,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Johnny Clarke,
The Dead C,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kayak,
Jerry Gold Smith,
DJ Style,
the Human League,
Gabor Szabo,
Chris Corsano,
Sex Pistols,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter and Kerry,
Eden Ahbez,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Delta 5,
Groovy Waters,
The Misunderstood,
Jerry's Kids,
Bill Near,
Bizarre Inc.,
The United States of America,
LL Cool J,
Wolf Eyes,
Fear,
Bill Wells,
Country Teasers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Busters,
Bush Tetras,
UT,
Porter Ricks,
Neil Young,
Theoretical Girls,
The Kinks,
Albert Ayler,
Tomorrow,
The Tremeloes,
Young Marble Giants,
Supertramp,
The Motions,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pulsallama,
Black Flag,
Erasure,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lucky Dragons,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Easy Going,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
John Coltrane,
Pantaleimon,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.