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 Solomon Islands and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Yellowson to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Ludus,
Agitation Free,
The Smoke,
June Days,
The Cowsills,
Loose Ends,
Q and Not U,
Buzzcocks,
Moby Grape,
Todd Rundgren,
Monks,
Ossler,
Skriet,
Albert Ayler,
Masters at Work,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fugazi,
Blake Baxter,
Aaron Thompson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barry Ungar,
Shoche,
Traffic Nightmare,
Eric Dolphy,
Icehouse,
Au Pairs,
Blossom Toes,
The Moody Blues,
FM Einheit,
Drive Like Jehu,
Curtis Mayfield,
Niagra,
Organ,
Stockholm Monsters,
Grey Daturas,
The Shadows of Knight,
Negative Approach,
The Sonics,
Mo-Dettes,
Bang On A Can,
Stiv Bators,
Radio Birdman,
Flipper,
Fluxion,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Modern Lovers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Blackbyrds,
Tubeway Army,
Fad Gadget,
Bobby Sherman,
Ralphi Rosario,
Urselle,
AZ,
Eli Mardock,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Stooges,
Country Teasers,
Kurtis Blow,
Pole,
Absolute Body Control,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.