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 Kosovo and from Copenhagen.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba 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 Leonard Cohen 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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Peter & Gordon,
the Bar-Kays,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Beau Brummels,
The Sound,
Wasted Youth,
DNA,
The Cramps,
Nick Fraelich,
Danielle Patucci,
Joyce Sims,
Parry Music,
Maleditus Sound,
The Smoke,
Bad Manners,
John Coltrane,
Kerrie Biddell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fluxion,
James White and The Blacks,
Model 500,
Oblivians,
Godley & Creme,
Letta Mbulu,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scientists,
John Lydon,
Lungfish,
Easy Going,
Black Bananas,
OOIOO,
Delta 5,
Blancmange,
Arthur Verocai,
Jandek,
Ronan,
Eden Ahbez,
Moby Grape,
Alison Limerick,
The Associates,
Scrapy,
Blossom Toes,
Zapp,
Deepchord,
The Invisible,
Wings,
Bluetip,
Flipper,
Steve Hackett,
T. Rex,
Yusef Lateef,
Average White Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Oneida,
Robert Hood,
Dead Boys,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lalann,
Niagra,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.