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 Angola and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Reuben Wilson to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Beasts of Bourbon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jeff Lynne,
Franke,
The Grass Roots,
Sun Ra,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kenny Larkin,
Theoretical Girls,
Brass Construction,
Joensuu 1685,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Alice Coltrane,
Tommy Roe,
Yaz,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Slits,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Intrusion,
Stiv Bators,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Index,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Reuben Wilson,
The Blackbyrds,
The Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Quantec,
Chris Corsano,
Lower 48,
The Human League,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Electric Prunes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rod Modell,
The Beau Brummels,
Gang Gang Dance,
10cc,
The Cure,
Rapeman,
Black Pus,
Ken Boothe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eric Dolphy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sparks,
Blossom Toes,
John Coltrane,
Swell Maps,
Minny Pops,
Popol Vuh,
Bob Dylan,
Absolute Body Control,
Television,
The Neon Judgement,
Interpol,
Hasil Adkins,
Dennis Brown,
The Toasters,
Lyres,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.