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 Rwanda and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 chamberlin 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 ABC to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Nation of Ulysses. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
The Standells,
Swell Maps,
Jacob Miller,
Ultra Naté,
Roger Hodgson,
The Residents,
Black Sheep,
Judy Mowatt,
Electric Light Orchestra,
This Heat,
Black Pus,
Drexciya,
Sound Behaviour,
Banda Bassotti,
Davy DMX,
Bill Wells,
The Smiths,
Joy Division,
The Vogues,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Moss Icon,
Chris Corsano,
Tommy Roe,
the Sonics,
Boredoms,
Robert Wyatt,
Flamin' Groovies,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Little Man,
T. Rex,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Black Flag,
Dave Gahan,
Excepter,
Rod Modell,
Reuben Wilson,
Oblivians,
In Retrospect,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Big Daddy Kane,
Cecil Taylor,
Barrington Levy,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hot Snakes,
The Five Americans,
The Cramps,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Leaves,
Pylon,
Franke,
Lou Christie,
D'Angelo,
Camouflage,
Quantec,
The Litter,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joe Finger,
Flipper,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.