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 Denmark and from Columbus.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 chamberlin 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 Sonic Youth to the dance 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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Fear,
The Residents,
FM Einheit,
Sam Rivers,
Barbara Tucker,
Robert Hood,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Modern Lovers,
Suicide,
Public Image Ltd.,
Shoche,
Bad Manners,
Grandmaster Flash,
Youth Brigade,
Ohio Players,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Stiv Bators,
The Busters,
X-101,
Lindisfarne,
Davy DMX,
Dorothy Ashby,
Camouflage,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eli Mardock,
Marmalade,
Basic Channel,
Crispy Ambulance,
Deepchord,
The Young Rascals,
Jeru the Damaja,
Al Stewart,
Moebius,
Tom Boy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Talk Talk,
Ronan,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fela Kuti,
Zapp,
The Buckinghams,
the Soft Cell,
Scan 7,
Average White Band,
Soft Machine,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Arcadia,
Jacques Brel,
Man Parrish,
Drexciya,
Amon Düül,
Sandy B,
The Saints,
Harry Pussy,
Prince Buster,
Joensuu 1685,
Pierre Henry,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.