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 Kiribati and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Madrid.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the jazz 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
David Axelrod,
Sister Nancy,
Sun City Girls,
Maurizio,
Funky Four + One,
New Age Steppers,
The Invisible,
Alphaville,
Cal Tjader,
Steve Hackett,
Donny Hathaway,
One Last Wish,
Fat Boys,
Technova,
Derrick Morgan,
Girls At Our Best!,
Monks,
Neu!,
Lucky Dragons,
Theoretical Girls,
Kerri Chandler,
The Young Rascals,
The Doors,
Severed Heads,
Roxy Music,
Boredoms,
Intrusion,
The Dave Clark Five,
MC5,
PIL,
Mandrill,
Todd Rundgren,
Malaria!,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Quando Quango,
Judy Mowatt,
Soft Cell,
The Mojo Men,
Zapp,
Donald Byrd,
The Slackers,
the Slits,
The Mummies,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Absolute Body Control,
Roxette,
Rotary Connection,
Bob Dylan,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pole,
Quantec,
CMW,
The Misunderstood,
Main Source,
The Moody Blues,
Bluetip,
The Barracudas,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Unrelated Segments,
Country Teasers,
Vainqueur,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.