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 Iceland and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 organ 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 Rapeman to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smiths,
Theoretical Girls,
Aloha Tigers,
Unwound,
The Saints,
The Raincoats,
Monolake,
K-Klass,
Derrick Morgan,
Metal Thangz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Accadde A,
Flash Fearless,
Rod Modell,
Kayak,
Sex Pistols,
Joe Smooth,
Letta Mbulu,
Leonard Cohen,
The New Christs,
Moss Icon,
Rekid,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lucky Dragons,
Jimmy McGriff,
Absolute Body Control,
Nick Fraelich,
Lower 48,
Aaron Thompson,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Divine Comedy,
L. Decosne,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lyres,
Technova,
Silicon Teens,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Severed Heads,
The Real Kids,
Tres Demented,
T. Rex,
Can,
Tears for Fears,
Fat Boys,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Morten Harket,
Scrapy,
Excepter,
Slick Rick,
Rapeman,
Wasted Youth,
The Pretty Things,
Swans,
Bizarre Inc.,
Donald Byrd,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Von Mondo,
Don Cherry,
Susan Cadogan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Quadrant,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.