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 Israel and from Spokane.
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 London and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Eric Dolphy to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Sarah Menescal,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Inner City,
Goldenarms,
The Wake,
Matthew Halsall,
Schoolly D,
Lindisfarne,
Byron Stingily,
Joensuu 1685,
Brand Nubian,
Dawn Penn,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Divine Comedy,
Surgeon,
Japan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Con Funk Shun,
Procol Harum,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kas Product,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Fall,
Aaron Thompson,
Fat Boys,
The Monochrome Set,
Duran Duran,
8 Eyed Spy,
Max Romeo,
Nik Kershaw,
Silicon Teens,
The Flesh Eaters,
Chris Corsano,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Martian,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Franke,
Scratch Acid,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Los Fastidios,
Connie Case,
Peter and Kerry,
Rekid,
The Smoke,
JFA,
Ken Boothe,
Marc Almond,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Young Rascals,
Ponytail,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Section 25,
Nirvana,
Eric Dolphy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cheater Slicks,
Magma,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.