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 Philippines and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lonnie Liston Smith to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kurtis Blow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flash Fearless,
Gil Scott Heron,
Chrome,
Icehouse,
Porter Ricks,
JFA,
Johnny Clarke,
Q65,
Slave,
The Blues Magoos,
Panda Bear,
Pere Ubu,
Lindisfarne,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Niagra,
Frankie Knuckles,
Swell Maps,
Visage,
Simply Red,
The Seeds,
Brass Construction,
Black Pus,
E-Dancer,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
MDC,
Sound Behaviour,
The Pop Group,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Intrusion,
Minor Threat,
Danielle Patucci,
Jerry's Kids,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Suicide,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Surgeon,
Susan Cadogan,
The Motions,
Jeff Lynne,
Thee Headcoats,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skarface,
Todd Rundgren,
Theoretical Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Television,
Infiniti,
Q and Not U,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Doors,
Fad Gadget,
John Holt,
The Searchers,
The Young Rascals,
Hashim,
Sex Pistols,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.