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 Ecuador and from Woodstock.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the snare 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 Alton Ellis to the electroclash 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
the Sonics,
10cc,
Fela Kuti,
Fad Gadget,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bobby Sherman,
Make Up,
Suicide,
Crime,
Archie Shepp,
MDC,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Standells,
The Raincoats,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joe Finger,
Juan Atkins,
Lyres,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Boz Scaggs,
Bauhaus,
The Offenders,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rhythm & Sound,
T. Rex,
Joensuu 1685,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cluster,
The Grass Roots,
Swell Maps,
Minor Threat,
Oneida,
Q65,
Stereo Dub,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Searchers,
James White and The Blacks,
Kerri Chandler,
The Human League,
Niagra,
Eve St. Jones,
Cal Tjader,
Leonard Cohen,
Depeche Mode,
Jesper Dahlback,
Intrusion,
Charles Mingus,
Black Bananas,
Los Fastidios,
Brick,
Isaac Hayes,
Neu!,
Gichy Dan,
Bill Wells,
Man Parrish,
Can,
Organ,
Ohio Players,
Average White Band,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.