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 Vietnam and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 arpeggiator 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish 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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Donald Byrd,
Sound Behaviour,
Stiv Bators,
Lou Christie,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gichy Dan,
Wally Richardson,
Peter and Kerry,
Bang On A Can,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Motions,
The Dead C,
The Red Krayola,
Bush Tetras,
Arcadia,
Donny Hathaway,
Scan 7,
Bizarre Inc.,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alice Coltrane,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Amazonics,
The Victims,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kerri Chandler,
Television Personalities,
Yusef Lateef,
Bronski Beat,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Michelle Simonal,
The Associates,
Letta Mbulu,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Standells,
Bobby Womack,
cv313,
Danielle Patucci,
The Durutti Column,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lightning Bolt,
Soul II Soul,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Quantec,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kayak,
H. Thieme,
Dead Boys,
Lakeside,
Moby Grape,
The Dave Clark Five,
These Immortal Souls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Scott Walker,
Dorothy Ashby,
Make Up, Make Up, Make Up, Make Up.
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.