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 Iceland and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Salvador.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Surgeon to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sad Lovers and Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Metal Thangz,
Dennis Brown,
The Gap Band,
Amazonics,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dawn Penn,
The Offenders,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Crash Course in Science,
Saccharine Trust,
Crime,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Divine Comedy,
Kenny Larkin,
Excepter,
Tubeway Army,
Glenn Branca,
Public Enemy,
The Motions,
The New Christs,
The Names,
Susan Cadogan,
DJ Sneak,
Kerri Chandler,
The Fugs,
Country Teasers,
Visage,
Magazine,
Sällskapet,
Accadde A,
The Fall,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Skriet,
Hasil Adkins,
The Smoke,
Brick,
Nik Kershaw,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Prince Buster,
Zapp,
Mr. Review,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Altered Images,
Barclay James Harvest,
Donny Hathaway,
Unwound,
Urselle,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Buckinghams,
Alison Limerick,
Lucky Dragons,
Davy DMX,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
CMW,
Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance.
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.