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 Angola and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 oboe 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 DJ Style to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
Ten City,
Neil Young,
Boz Scaggs,
a-ha,
Minny Pops,
The Blues Magoos,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Modern Lovers,
The Monochrome Set,
Soul II Soul,
Cybotron,
Vainqueur,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Idris Muhammad,
Swell Maps,
Marmalade,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lou Christie,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Brick,
Rufus Thomas,
The Happenings,
June of 44,
The United States of America,
Gabor Szabo,
Maurizio,
The Divine Comedy,
Dual Sessions,
Tim Buckley,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kerri Chandler,
Sight & Sound,
Oblivians,
Loose Ends,
Harpers Bizarre,
Mars,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Animal Collective,
Public Image Ltd.,
H. Thieme,
Pole,
Brand Nubian,
Stiv Bators,
Wings,
Derrick Morgan,
Organ,
Marcia Griffiths,
La Düsseldorf,
Ultravox,
Japan,
Supertramp,
Peter and Kerry,
Newcleus,
the Fania All-Stars,
Funkadelic,
The Toasters,
The Motions,
Joey Negro,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.