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 Indonesia and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 guitar 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 Model 500 to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Alison Limerick,
E-Dancer,
Thompson Twins,
Minny Pops,
Eli Mardock,
Pylon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rapeman,
The Zeros,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Avey Tare,
Anthony Braxton,
Unwound,
The Skatalites,
UT,
Andrew Hill,
Suburban Knight,
Chrome,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cluster,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Blackbyrds,
Schoolly D,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Birthday Party,
Outsiders,
Girls At Our Best!,
Moebius,
Animal Collective,
The Electric Prunes,
The Monochrome Set,
Rekid,
Nico,
DJ Style,
Marine Girls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Subhumans,
Reagan Youth,
The Blues Magoos,
Gil Scott Heron,
Aswad,
Barbara Tucker,
Sun City Girls,
Maurizio,
Bill Near,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gang Gang Dance,
Guru Guru,
Gang Green,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Hashim,
Jacob Miller,
The Raincoats,
Cymande,
Ituana,
Lungfish,
Metal Thangz,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.