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 Papua New Guinea and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 ABC to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Spandau Ballet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Patti Smith,
Matthew Bourne,
the Swans,
Television,
X-102,
Zero Boys,
Sun City Girls,
Johnny Clarke,
Public Image Ltd.,
Agent Orange,
Infiniti,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
China Crisis,
Matthew Halsall,
Public Enemy,
Q and Not U,
The Toasters,
Toni Rubio,
The Monochrome Set,
Wings,
Juan Atkins,
The Five Americans,
Monks,
Pylon,
Girls At Our Best!,
D'Angelo,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ice-T,
Absolute Body Control,
the Slits,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Qualms,
Bill Near,
Magazine,
Radiohead,
Jandek,
Quadrant,
MC5,
Black Pus,
The Cramps,
Johnny Osbourne,
Porter Ricks,
Barbara Tucker,
The Human League,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Davy DMX,
Guru Guru,
Soulsonic Force,
Saccharine Trust,
Nirvana,
The Seeds,
Minny Pops,
Leonard Cohen,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marshall Jefferson,
Panda Bear,
Idris Muhammad,
Lakeside,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.