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 Haiti and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Nile Rodgers 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 crunk 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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Beau Brummels record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Blake Baxter,
Index,
Essential Logic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Derrick Morgan,
Inner City,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
MDC,
Eden Ahbez,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Susan Cadogan,
China Crisis,
Bush Tetras,
the Association,
Tears for Fears,
X-Ray Spex,
The Doobie Brothers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cecil Taylor,
The Barracudas,
Terry Callier,
Television Personalities,
Mo-Dettes,
The Remains,
Kool Moe Dee,
Crime,
Fatback Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bluetip,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kayak,
JFA,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gang Green,
Desert Stars,
the Germs,
Soft Machine,
The Cowsills,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ultravox,
The Smoke,
Sonny Sharrock,
Quadrant,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Albert Ayler,
Hot Snakes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Animal Collective,
X-101,
Siglo XX,
Niagra,
Yazoo,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Procol Harum,
kango's stein massive,
10cc,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.