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 Algeria and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 chamberlin 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 Hashim to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-101,
Lalo Schifrin,
Aural Exciters,
Sun City Girls,
The American Breed,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Dawn Penn,
Unwound,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
David Bowie,
Zero Boys,
Goldenarms,
The Litter,
Animal Collective,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Cure,
R.M.O.,
Rotary Connection,
The Real Kids,
Ohio Players,
One Last Wish,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ronnie Foster,
The J.B.'s,
Joy Division,
LL Cool J,
Jandek,
Blake Baxter,
Cluster,
The Tremeloes,
Sister Nancy,
Shoche,
Pere Ubu,
Nico,
Robert Hood,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Popol Vuh,
Dave Gahan,
Section 25,
Groovy Waters,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gichy Dan,
Silicon Teens,
Au Pairs,
Flamin' Groovies,
AZ,
Neil Young,
Buzzcocks,
Barry Ungar,
Underground Resistance,
Beasts of Bourbon,
CMW,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Von Mondo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.