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 Liechtenstein and from Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Salvador.
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 theremin 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the jazz 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 The Remains. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Black Bananas,
Wire,
Crash Course in Science,
Dave Gahan,
Joensuu 1685,
PIL,
The Searchers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scott Walker,
Tommy Roe,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Minutemen,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Isaac Hayes,
Bobby Byrd,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Donny Hathaway,
Marvin Gaye,
Pussy Galore,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Black Pus,
Bill Wells,
The Vogues,
The Human League,
Brand Nubian,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Quadrant,
The Count Five,
Pantytec,
Kerri Chandler,
Camberwell Now,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lakeside,
Neu!,
Moby Grape,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Raincoats,
The Red Krayola,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ice-T,
Yusef Lateef,
Barry Ungar,
Peter & Gordon,
a-ha,
Kool Moe Dee,
Television Personalities,
The United States of America,
Ten City,
The American Breed,
Sugar Minott,
Harmonia,
Lucky Dragons,
James White and The Blacks,
Blossom Toes,
The Barracudas,
Roger Hodgson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Junior Murvin,
Howard Jones,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.