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 United Kingdom and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Supertramp to the electroclash 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter & Gordon,
Urselle,
Qualms,
Donald Byrd,
Bobby Byrd,
Iggy Pop,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Roxy Music,
Carl Craig,
The Neon Judgement,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Model 500,
Circle Jerks,
The Skatalites,
U.S. Maple,
Hoover,
Archie Shepp,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Index,
Funkadelic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Siglo XX,
Janne Schatter,
The Barracudas,
Bob Dylan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Graham Central Station,
Barry Ungar,
Terrestrial Tones,
Black Pus,
David Axelrod,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Brick,
The Sonics,
Fear,
X-Ray Spex,
The Wake,
Ornette Coleman,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
James White and The Blacks,
Theoretical Girls,
Animal Collective,
Marc Almond,
Maurizio,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Tom Boy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Spandau Ballet,
Joey Negro,
John Lydon,
Basic Channel,
Dark Day,
Glambeats Corp.,
Q65,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green.
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.