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 Barbados and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mumbai.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Toni Rubio to the rap 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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water 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 rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Machine,
Minny Pops,
Soulsonic Force,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Blues Magoos,
Wally Richardson,
Pierre Henry,
The Count Five,
The Modern Lovers,
Camouflage,
The Cure,
Simply Red,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
B.T. Express,
Circle Jerks,
Gil Scott Heron,
10cc,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Johnny Osbourne,
Severed Heads,
Barry Ungar,
Donald Byrd,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Alton Ellis,
The Kinks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Glambeats Corp.,
Japan,
Anakelly,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Desert Stars,
Bauhaus,
The Misunderstood,
The Mojo Men,
In Retrospect,
Aaron Thompson,
Procol Harum,
Monks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sarah Menescal,
KRS-One,
Moss Icon,
Newcleus,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Smiths,
The Velvet Underground,
Khruangbin,
Magazine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
James White and The Blacks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Dennis Brown,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Wasted Youth,
Fad Gadget,
The Busters,
Zero Boys,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scratch Acid,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
8 Eyed Spy,
One Last Wish,
Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro.
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.