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 Congo and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 synthesizer 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 Hoover to the techno 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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
A Certain Ratio,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Fuzztones,
The Pretty Things,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Toni Rubio,
Susan Cadogan,
Lower 48,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ken Boothe,
Rosa Yemen,
Infiniti,
Jerry's Kids,
Unwound,
Visage,
Peter & Gordon,
Sixth Finger,
Nas,
The Electric Prunes,
Groovy Waters,
Roxy Music,
Eric Copeland,
Underground Resistance,
Junior Murvin,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
Young Marble Giants,
Symarip,
Moss Icon,
Hashim,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sister Nancy,
John Cale,
OOIOO,
Bang On A Can,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Donny Hathaway,
New Age Steppers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Crash Course in Science,
The Motions,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lindisfarne,
Swell Maps,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Slits,
Rufus Thomas,
Erasure,
Jandek,
Alice Coltrane,
The Fall,
Bobby Sherman,
Subhumans,
Aloha Tigers,
John Lydon,
Moebius,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ralphi Rosario,
Roy Ayers,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.