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 Mexico and from Copenhagen.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Mars to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oneida,
Section 25,
Glenn Branca,
Khruangbin,
Fad Gadget,
Isaac Hayes,
Aloha Tigers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kool Moe Dee,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Barbara Tucker,
The Fall,
DNA,
The Tremeloes,
Quadrant,
Sun Ra,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lou Reed,
The Motions,
The Skatalites,
John Lydon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Television,
Black Sheep,
The Dirtbombs,
The Seeds,
The Shadows of Knight,
Heaven 17,
Cluster,
Con Funk Shun,
Harry Pussy,
Drexciya,
The Electric Prunes,
La Düsseldorf,
Dawn Penn,
Ornette Coleman,
Mars,
Bill Near,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Unrelated Segments,
Agitation Free,
Anakelly,
China Crisis,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Aaron Thompson,
Magma,
The Slits,
Grey Daturas,
Trumans Water,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fugazi,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joy Division,
MDC,
Grauzone,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dennis Brown,
Fluxion,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Invisible,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.