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 Dominica and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Johannesburg.
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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Animal Collective to the funk 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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Interpol,
Mark Hollis,
Wire,
Faust,
Gerry Rafferty,
Anthony Braxton,
Radio Birdman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Angels of Light,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Delon & Dalcan,
Black Bananas,
Flamin' Groovies,
Wolf Eyes,
Smog,
Public Image Ltd.,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Monochrome Set,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Avey Tare,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ohio Players,
Carl Craig,
Masters at Work,
Rakim,
The Leaves,
The Red Krayola,
Agent Orange,
Bluetip,
This Heat,
Graham Central Station,
John Cale,
Colin Newman,
Ten City,
The Walker Brothers,
Jandek,
Fear,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Spandau Ballet,
Fugazi,
Flipper,
Arcadia,
The Martian,
Camouflage,
Echospace,
Soulsonic Force,
Dennis Brown,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sun Ra,
The American Breed,
Todd Rundgren,
Byron Stingily,
PIL,
Girls At Our Best!,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ronan,
Minnie Riperton,
The Toasters,
Rites of Spring,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Zeros,
Rod Modell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.