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 Eritrea and from Calgary.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Zapp to the rap 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 Terrestrial Tones. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fatback Band,
Chris Corsano,
AZ,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Reuben Wilson,
Joyce Sims,
The Searchers,
Jimmy McGriff,
X-102,
Yusef Lateef,
Public Image Ltd.,
JFA,
Kurtis Blow,
Pulsallama,
John Holt,
Procol Harum,
Smog,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nils Olav,
Section 25,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Black Sheep,
Goldenarms,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
the Normal,
Minny Pops,
Deakin,
Crash Course in Science,
Simply Red,
Wasted Youth,
LL Cool J,
Moby Grape,
ABBA,
Chrome,
Swell Maps,
The American Breed,
Bluetip,
Lee Hazlewood,
Idris Muhammad,
the Germs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Tears for Fears,
Royal Trux,
Slick Rick,
Alton Ellis,
Brass Construction,
Audionom,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Erykah Badu,
Harpers Bizarre,
Yazoo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sound Behaviour,
Soul Sonic Force,
Andrew Hill,
The Human League,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Angry Samoans,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.