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 Cyprus and from Edmonton.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 güiro 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 the Fania All-Stars to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Aaron Thompson,
Tubeway Army,
Mo-Dettes,
D'Angelo,
Niagra,
Pantaleimon,
Jeff Lynne,
Yusef Lateef,
Crispy Ambulance,
Harmonia,
Tomorrow,
Swell Maps,
The Standells,
Television,
Alice Coltrane,
Jawbox,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Music Machine,
Joyce Sims,
Subhumans,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ponytail,
CMW,
Laurel Aitken,
Simply Red,
Icehouse,
Fatback Band,
The Grass Roots,
Rapeman,
Bill Near,
Excepter,
The Dave Clark Five,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
the Association,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Visage,
Josef K,
Fad Gadget,
Wolf Eyes,
Interpol,
The Modern Lovers,
The Blackbyrds,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Howard Jones,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sonic Youth,
FM Einheit,
Michelle Simonal,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Banda Bassotti,
Sexual Harrassment,
Piero Umiliani,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Skatalites,
Television Personalities,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.