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 Congo and from New York.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Matthew Bourne to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
Byron Stingily,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Gap Band,
Arcadia,
Nico,
Jeff Lynne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scan 7,
The Skatalites,
In Retrospect,
Animal Collective,
Kerri Chandler,
Dorothy Ashby,
Average White Band,
The Mojo Men,
Delta 5,
Chrome,
Soft Cell,
DJ Sneak,
Schoolly D,
Derrick Morgan,
Derrick May,
The J.B.'s,
Avey Tare,
Oneida,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pere Ubu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
D'Angelo,
Eddi Front,
The Barracudas,
The Residents,
Barbara Tucker,
Malaria!,
Steve Hackett,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eden Ahbez,
The Beau Brummels,
Altered Images,
Davy DMX,
Connie Case,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rotary Connection,
Oblivians,
Moss Icon,
The Saints,
The Move,
Kurtis Blow,
a-ha,
Rhythm & Sound,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cure,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Associates,
Warsaw,
Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.
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.