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 Comoros and from Toronto.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba 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 The Associates to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Dawn Penn tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Popol Vuh,
Brothers Johnson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Modern Lovers,
Zero Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
the Soft Cell,
Fatback Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
Tim Buckley,
The Human League,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sandy B,
KRS-One,
Minny Pops,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Suicide,
Dark Day,
Jandek,
Connie Case,
H. Thieme,
EPMD,
Bill Near,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Adolescents,
Soft Machine,
Carl Craig,
Average White Band,
The J.B.'s,
Nils Olav,
The Martian,
Faust,
B.T. Express,
Roger Hodgson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Unrelated Segments,
Public Image Ltd.,
Wally Richardson,
John Foxx,
R.M.O.,
Subhumans,
Lalo Schifrin,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sällskapet,
Blancmange,
Skriet,
the Slits,
The Music Machine,
World's Most,
Funkadelic,
The Durutti Column,
Parry Music,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Five Americans,
Buzzcocks,
Gong,
Jimmy McGriff,
Supertramp,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.