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 Greece and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 linndrum 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 Connie Case to the dance 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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joyce Sims,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Raincoats,
The Wake,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Maleditus Sound,
Ten City,
The Doobie Brothers,
Crash Course in Science,
Porter Ricks,
Underground Resistance,
JFA,
Yaz,
the Germs,
The Skatalites,
Reagan Youth,
Moebius,
The Associates,
Icehouse,
Adolescents,
Vainqueur,
Essential Logic,
Gerry Rafferty,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The United States of America,
Tears for Fears,
Outsiders,
Roger Hodgson,
Popol Vuh,
Jawbox,
Niagra,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Subhumans,
R.M.O.,
Shoche,
Bang On A Can,
Gang Starr,
Severed Heads,
Erasure,
Matthew Halsall,
Rosa Yemen,
Funky Four + One,
Gang of Four,
Peter & Gordon,
Aloha Tigers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scion,
The Durutti Column,
Whodini,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Gap Band,
Trumans Water,
The Gun Club,
Robert Görl,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Organ,
Neil Young,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.