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 Spain and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Interpol to the crunk 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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lucky Dragons,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Excepter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Y Pants,
Oneida,
Gang Green,
Clear Light,
A Flock of Seagulls,
David Bowie,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Angels of Light,
Popol Vuh,
Terry Callier,
Crash Course in Science,
Patti Smith,
Joy Division,
The Smoke,
Severed Heads,
UT,
The Vogues,
Roxy Music,
Tim Buckley,
Surgeon,
The Monochrome Set,
Los Fastidios,
Rufus Thomas,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fela Kuti,
Marc Almond,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Martian,
Barclay James Harvest,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lalo Schifrin,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Saints,
Bang On A Can,
Dual Sessions,
Hasil Adkins,
Quantec,
Pet Shop Boys,
Peter and Kerry,
Soul II Soul,
The Buckinghams,
Fear,
The Moleskins,
The Skatalites,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soul Sonic Force,
These Immortal Souls,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Motions,
Fad Gadget,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Connie Case,
Ken Boothe,
the Soft Cell,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.