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 Belgium and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and New York.
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 linndrum 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 Vogues to the rock 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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Y Pants,
Maurizio,
KRS-One,
Hot Snakes,
Susan Cadogan,
Cal Tjader,
Roxette,
The Busters,
The Wake,
H. Thieme,
Minor Threat,
Alphaville,
the Slits,
Underground Resistance,
Inner City,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scott Walker,
Moebius,
The Young Rascals,
Nas,
the Fania All-Stars,
Average White Band,
Magazine,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Aloha Tigers,
Joensuu 1685,
David McCallum,
Alice Coltrane,
The Red Krayola,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Count Five,
UT,
Subhumans,
Sam Rivers,
The Birthday Party,
Lou Christie,
D'Angelo,
Lungfish,
Warren Ellis,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Tremeloes,
the Bar-Kays,
The Velvet Underground,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Grass Roots,
Kenny Larkin,
Essential Logic,
Quantec,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobby Sherman,
The Sound,
Pylon,
8 Eyed Spy,
Eurythmics,
The Golliwogs,
Joyce Sims,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Names,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.