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 Romania and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Sexual Harrassment tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smoke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Pantaleimon,
The Fire Engines,
Bobby Byrd,
Amazonics,
Gregory Isaacs,
MDC,
Charles Mingus,
Grandmaster Flash,
Heaven 17,
Kurtis Blow,
Boz Scaggs,
Cameo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soul II Soul,
Aloha Tigers,
Lightning Bolt,
Grauzone,
Malaria!,
Outsiders,
Kaleidoscope,
ABBA,
Liliput,
Isaac Hayes,
the Soft Cell,
JFA,
Anakelly,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Franke,
the Normal,
PIL,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dave Gahan,
Essential Logic,
the Human League,
Reagan Youth,
The Busters,
Janne Schatter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Soulsonic Force,
OOIOO,
the Germs,
Minutemen,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Peter & Gordon,
Oblivians,
Donny Hathaway,
Danielle Patucci,
Wolf Eyes,
Funkadelic,
Joe Smooth,
The Skatalites,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scott Walker,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dark Day,
The Fugs,
Skaos,
DJ Style,
Bang On A Can,
The Residents,
The Red Krayola,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.