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 Somalia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Main Source 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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rekid,
Idris Muhammad,
Nirvana,
Crash Course in Science,
The Stooges,
Minnie Riperton,
Television Personalities,
X-102,
Juan Atkins,
the Association,
Technova,
Cymande,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
China Crisis,
Eve St. Jones,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Roxy Music,
Quando Quango,
Joe Finger,
Basic Channel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Smiths,
Yusef Lateef,
Fugazi,
Public Enemy,
Barclay James Harvest,
Todd Terry,
Funky Four + One,
The Moleskins,
The Smoke,
Section 25,
a-ha,
Black Pus,
Nik Kershaw,
Aural Exciters,
The Cramps,
Joensuu 1685,
The Pretty Things,
Little Man,
Bobby Sherman,
Quantec,
Make Up,
The Associates,
Arcadia,
Youth Brigade,
Al Stewart,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Minutemen,
The Doobie Brothers,
Johnny Osbourne,
David Bowie,
Minor Threat,
Maurizio,
Hoover,
Soulsonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
New Order,
Sarah Menescal,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.