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 Oman and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 snare 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 Doors to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Blancmange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
The Happenings,
Unwound,
Jawbox,
Sarah Menescal,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Public Enemy,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Fortunes,
The Sound,
The Grass Roots,
Bill Near,
Moss Icon,
the Germs,
Jerry's Kids,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Faraquet,
Basic Channel,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Boz Scaggs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Roger Hodgson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lee Hazlewood,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Surgeon,
Q and Not U,
Lou Reed,
Minny Pops,
10cc,
Gang Starr,
Nick Fraelich,
The Move,
Stetsasonic,
Sugar Minott,
Rotary Connection,
The Electric Prunes,
Chrome,
Subhumans,
Groovy Waters,
John Holt,
Mark Hollis,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Swans,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gichy Dan,
Aural Exciters,
Anthony Braxton,
The Evens,
Sun Ra,
John Lydon,
Marmalade,
Laurel Aitken,
Ronnie Foster,
Black Bananas,
Al Stewart,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bronski Beat,
LL Cool J,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.