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 Solomon Islands and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Martian to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Traffic Nightmare 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
The Divine Comedy,
Skaos,
Wire,
Scan 7,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Skatalites,
Ken Boothe,
10cc,
A Certain Ratio,
Dennis Brown,
John Cale,
E-Dancer,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cure,
B.T. Express,
Los Fastidios,
Donald Byrd,
The Fall,
Pole,
Sugar Minott,
Groovy Waters,
Nils Olav,
The Buckinghams,
Das Ding,
Hasil Adkins,
Nirvana,
Alison Limerick,
Essential Logic,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Janne Schatter,
Suburban Knight,
Negative Approach,
Hoover,
Yazoo,
Grauzone,
The Leaves,
Graham Central Station,
Spoonie Gee,
Wally Richardson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bizarre Inc.,
Crooked Eye,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Star Department,
Derrick Morgan,
Interpol,
Minnie Riperton,
The Fortunes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Minny Pops,
Barbara Tucker,
The Offenders,
Jacob Miller,
Tim Buckley,
Lakeside,
Fear,
Skarface,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Royal Trux,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.