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 Djibouti and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Taipei.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Franke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Marc Almond,
Eden Ahbez,
Rotary Connection,
In Retrospect,
The Angels of Light,
Moby Grape,
The Moleskins,
F. McDonald,
Big Daddy Kane,
Delta 5,
The Zeros,
Sparks,
Monolake,
Jesper Dahlback,
Arcadia,
Lower 48,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Human League,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Babytalk,
Chrome,
The Fortunes,
Marvin Gaye,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Crispy Ambulance,
Barclay James Harvest,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
CMW,
Jawbox,
Robert Wyatt,
Icehouse,
the Fania All-Stars,
the Swans,
Eric Dolphy,
John Foxx,
Brothers Johnson,
Joe Finger,
L. Decosne,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Amon Düül,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Agent Orange,
cv313,
Man Eating Sloth,
Mr. Review,
Smog,
The Dirtbombs,
Grey Daturas,
Idris Muhammad,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
T. Rex,
Black Flag,
Basic Channel,
Schoolly D,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Grauzone,
The Associates,
Toni Rubio,
Eric Copeland,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.