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 Saudi Arabia and from Paris.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Soft Cell 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Robert Hood,
The Gladiators,
Anakelly,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Monochrome Set,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Golliwogs,
Stetsasonic,
Scott Walker,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Freddie Wadling,
Bill Wells,
Fatback Band,
K-Klass,
Pylon,
Mars,
The Misunderstood,
Saccharine Trust,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Fugs,
Bang On A Can,
Terry Callier,
Rakim,
Dorothy Ashby,
Moss Icon,
Neil Young,
World's Most,
Easy Going,
Gang of Four,
Don Cherry,
Robert Görl,
Reuben Wilson,
Letta Mbulu,
Con Funk Shun,
Smog,
Make Up,
John Foxx,
The Dead C,
Sparks,
kango's stein massive,
The Trojans,
Radio Birdman,
The Smiths,
John Coltrane,
David McCallum,
The Mojo Men,
Skaos,
Kas Product,
The Wake,
Metal Thangz,
Deakin,
B.T. Express,
Spoonie Gee,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Index,
Barclay James Harvest,
Joey Negro,
Royal Trux,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.