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 Laos and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Danielle Patucci to the crunk 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Josef K,
Eric Copeland,
Soft Cell,
Index,
Bobbi Humphrey,
David Bowie,
New Age Steppers,
The Fuzztones,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Sonics,
The American Breed,
Barclay James Harvest,
Avey Tare,
Gabor Szabo,
Howard Jones,
Parry Music,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
World's Most,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Audionom,
Goldenarms,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Techniques,
Skriet,
Altered Images,
Black Moon,
The Angels of Light,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bauhaus,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kerri Chandler,
Cameo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cybotron,
Roxy Music,
Marcia Griffiths,
Minor Threat,
Heaven 17,
Rufus Thomas,
Magazine,
Erykah Badu,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Young Rascals,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Khruangbin,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Monochrome Set,
The Slackers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Public Enemy,
Nik Kershaw,
E-Dancer,
Joe Smooth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Swans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.