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 Czech Republic 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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Essential Logic to the punk 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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Residents,
Carl Craig,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Donald Byrd,
Con Funk Shun,
Alton Ellis,
Moss Icon,
Symarip,
The Mummies,
The Divine Comedy,
Sun Ra,
The New Christs,
Black Flag,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
UT,
Gang of Four,
Anthony Braxton,
Althea and Donna,
The Walker Brothers,
Warsaw,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fugazi,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Dirtbombs,
Harmonia,
Magazine,
Joy Division,
The Monochrome Set,
Marvin Gaye,
Das Ding,
The Count Five,
Sandy B,
The Blues Magoos,
Excepter,
Television Personalities,
Arthur Verocai,
Little Man,
Warren Ellis,
Shuggie Otis,
Television,
Reuben Wilson,
The Mojo Men,
Drexciya,
Interpol,
Animal Collective,
Roxy Music,
Von Mondo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Young Rascals,
Dead Boys,
Crash Course in Science,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Theoretical Girls,
Crispy Ambulance,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.