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 Marshall Islands and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Newcleus 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Slits 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Silicon Teens,
Khruangbin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sixth Finger,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Swans,
Black Sheep,
Hardrive,
The Martian,
The Smoke,
Soul II Soul,
10cc,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Procol Harum,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Litter,
Erasure,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pere Ubu,
Ralphi Rosario,
Saccharine Trust,
Connie Case,
The Trojans,
Harpers Bizarre,
Wire,
Gang of Four,
Country Teasers,
The Wake,
Pierre Henry,
Y Pants,
Andrew Hill,
Jacques Brel,
The Monks,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cecil Taylor,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ponytail,
Jerry's Kids,
The Move,
Ten City,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Selecter,
Kerri Chandler,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eurythmics,
Faust,
Radiohead,
Carl Craig,
Henry Cow,
The Mummies,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The American Breed,
Buzzcocks,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.