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 Russia and from Accra.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Banda Bassotti to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
cv313,
Black Bananas,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sällskapet,
Piero Umiliani,
Camberwell Now,
Tommy Roe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gang of Four,
Cameo,
Main Source,
Royal Trux,
Joey Negro,
The Count Five,
Bill Near,
Johnny Clarke,
John Coltrane,
June of 44,
The Invisible,
Nico,
This Heat,
EPMD,
The Neon Judgement,
Lee Hazlewood,
Absolute Body Control,
Monks,
Quando Quango,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fad Gadget,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Slits,
Ronnie Foster,
Heaven 17,
Roy Ayers,
the Sonics,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Harry Pussy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Searchers,
Cal Tjader,
The Names,
Ultravox,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Beau Brummels,
Livin' Joy,
The Grass Roots,
Dark Day,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Sonics,
Second Layer,
Metal Thangz,
Reuben Wilson,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.