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 Guinea and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 Boogie Down Productions to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Names. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Neon Judgement record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
These Immortal Souls,
D'Angelo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
One Last Wish,
Magma,
The Motions,
Bootsy Collins,
Television,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Flag,
Patti Smith,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
World's Most,
Camouflage,
Adolescents,
T. Rex,
Fugazi,
Piero Umiliani,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Parry Music,
The Dead C,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Joensuu 1685,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sun City Girls,
The Dave Clark Five,
The J.B.'s,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Thee Headcoats,
Newcleus,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sexual Harrassment,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jeff Lynne,
Rotary Connection,
Wally Richardson,
Dawn Penn,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Mojo Men,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
John Coltrane,
Rakim,
Fela Kuti,
Ralphi Rosario,
DJ Style,
Drexciya,
The Busters,
Ossler,
Vainqueur,
Deadbeat,
Visage,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Golliwogs,
Urselle,
Nils Olav,
Mission of Burma,
Thompson Twins,
Faraquet,
Jesper Dahlback,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.