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 Nigeria and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bremen.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Skriet to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacques Brel,
Marine Girls,
Simply Red,
The J.B.'s,
Terry Callier,
Ice-T,
The Sound,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
MC5,
Joy Division,
K-Klass,
Lindisfarne,
Amon Düül,
The Red Krayola,
Essential Logic,
Animal Collective,
Blake Baxter,
Pharoah Sanders,
Public Image Ltd.,
F. McDonald,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Black Pus,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Sonics,
Eric Dolphy,
Radiohead,
48th St. Collective,
Vladislav Delay,
Swell Maps,
Leonard Cohen,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Severed Heads,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soulsonic Force,
Lalann,
Kas Product,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Icehouse,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sonic Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Patti Smith,
Schoolly D,
John Foxx,
Faust,
Ronnie Foster,
The Count Five,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Quadrant,
Pierre Henry,
Desert Stars,
Flipper,
Bronski Beat,
Harmonia,
Bauhaus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Talk Talk,
Blossom Toes,
Cal Tjader,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.