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 Nauru and from Paris.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 808 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 Amon Düül to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Tremeloes,
Jacob Miller,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Robert Hood,
Dawn Penn,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sugar Minott,
X-101,
Public Image Ltd.,
Swans,
The Toasters,
JFA,
Camberwell Now,
Parry Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Leonard Cohen,
Pylon,
Rakim,
Aaron Thompson,
Excepter,
Howard Jones,
10cc,
Deadbeat,
Brick,
Oblivians,
Erykah Badu,
Altered Images,
a-ha,
The Slackers,
Soulsonic Force,
Roxette,
Cal Tjader,
Franke,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Audionom,
Gregory Isaacs,
Youth Brigade,
Aloha Tigers,
48th St. Collective,
Ten City,
June Days,
Sun Ra,
Kurtis Blow,
Severed Heads,
Sparks,
Iggy Pop,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Pretty Things,
The Doors,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Raincoats,
Arab on Radar,
The Star Department,
Johnny Clarke,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.