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 Libya and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 The Skatalites to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Man Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Durutti Column,
Faust,
Underground Resistance,
Make Up,
JFA,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kaleidoscope,
Dave Gahan,
Faraquet,
Whodini,
Rod Modell,
Chris Corsano,
Dawn Penn,
Michelle Simonal,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Laurel Aitken,
Hashim,
Livin' Joy,
Ituana,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scan 7,
Patti Smith,
The Fortunes,
Judy Mowatt,
Alton Ellis,
Ice-T,
Bob Dylan,
Delta 5,
Cybotron,
The Zeros,
the Association,
Alison Limerick,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Litter,
Franke,
The Gap Band,
Marc Almond,
Surgeon,
Buzzcocks,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Eden Ahbez,
Ultravox,
Junior Murvin,
John Cale,
Bizarre Inc.,
Slick Rick,
Absolute Body Control,
David Axelrod,
Yazoo,
Duran Duran,
Rhythm & Sound,
Oneida,
Yaz,
Wings,
Jandek,
8 Eyed Spy,
DJ Sneak,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lou Christie,
Neu!,
The Skatalites,
Gabor Szabo,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.