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 Lithuania and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Theoretical Girls to the grunge 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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
The Litter,
Interpol,
Japan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Soulsonic Force,
John Holt,
Dark Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Zero Boys,
The Sonics,
X-Ray Spex,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Mission of Burma,
Lower 48,
Infiniti,
Aswad,
Jawbox,
Donald Byrd,
Khruangbin,
Alison Limerick,
Pole,
JFA,
Sister Nancy,
Donny Hathaway,
Bob Dylan,
Maleditus Sound,
The Moleskins,
The Dead C,
Negative Approach,
Procol Harum,
Index,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Roxy Music,
Rapeman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
June Days,
Prince Buster,
Mantronix,
Soul II Soul,
The Fugs,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
48th St. Collective,
Sugar Minott,
Wire,
Ponytail,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Girls At Our Best!,
DJ Style,
World's Most,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Supertramp,
Amon Düül II,
Ituana,
Tom Boy,
Byron Stingily,
Brand Nubian,
The Move,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.