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 Nauru and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Soft Cell to the dance 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Erykah Badu,
Albert Ayler,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Andrew Hill,
One Last Wish,
Kaleidoscope,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Monolake,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Little Man,
The Associates,
Alison Limerick,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Sound,
the Fania All-Stars,
Main Source,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Stereo Dub,
Lou Christie,
Charles Mingus,
The Cure,
Aaron Thompson,
The Busters,
Camouflage,
Bobby Womack,
Faust,
New Order,
E-Dancer,
Mr. Review,
Bang On A Can,
Terrestrial Tones,
Inner City,
Crash Course in Science,
Radio Birdman,
Jawbox,
The Misunderstood,
OOIOO,
Das Ding,
Marc Almond,
Lindisfarne,
Pulsallama,
Ice-T,
Nick Fraelich,
Wally Richardson,
Magma,
Cal Tjader,
Quantec,
The Modern Lovers,
Icehouse,
Yellowson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
H. Thieme,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.