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 Marshall Islands and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 snare 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 Fluxion to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kevin Saunderson. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Saccharine Trust,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Franke,
Minor Threat,
Rakim,
Negative Approach,
Derrick May,
Idris Muhammad,
The Move,
Pole,
Zapp,
Radiopuhelimet,
Goldenarms,
Qualms,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Monolake,
Average White Band,
The Dead C,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marmalade,
DJ Sneak,
Radio Birdman,
Tomorrow,
Frankie Knuckles,
U.S. Maple,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Inner City,
The Happenings,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Boogie Down Productions,
Amazonics,
The Monks,
Unwound,
Kaleidoscope,
Ossler,
David McCallum,
FM Einheit,
The J.B.'s,
Henry Cow,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Isaac Hayes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Human League,
Siglo XX,
JFA,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bill Wells,
Lindisfarne,
June Days,
The Velvet Underground,
John Cale,
The United States of America,
Pussy Galore,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Flash Fearless,
Ponytail,
Darondo,
Metal Thangz,
Newcleus,
The Music Machine,
Japan,
Marvin Gaye,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
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.