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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Harpers Bizarre to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Bush Tetras,
Clear Light,
Lightning Bolt,
Jeff Mills,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Roger Hodgson,
Arcadia,
Drive Like Jehu,
FM Einheit,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Interpol,
Accadde A,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Skatalites,
Make Up,
Oneida,
Sam Rivers,
Derrick Morgan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Outsiders,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Cure,
Oblivians,
Babytalk,
The Doobie Brothers,
Isaac Hayes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Glenn Branca,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Newcleus,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Howard Jones,
Procol Harum,
Erykah Badu,
Lyres,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
DJ Sneak,
The Gories,
Wire,
The Dave Clark Five,
Iggy Pop,
The Gun Club,
The United States of America,
Ice-T,
The Gap Band,
The Offenders,
Metal Thangz,
The Mighty Diamonds,
48th St. Collective,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Carl Craig,
Jacob Miller,
Cybotron,
Albert Ayler,
Freddie Wadling,
The Martian,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.