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 Djibouti and from Lille.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Hoover to the dance 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 Traffic Nightmare. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
Kurtis Blow,
The Leaves,
Organ,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soft Cell,
Japan,
Tears for Fears,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
Index,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Angry Samoans,
The Misunderstood,
The Walker Brothers,
New Order,
PIL,
Duran Duran,
Massinfluence,
The Shadows of Knight,
Symarip,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lightning Bolt,
Donald Byrd,
The Beau Brummels,
Saccharine Trust,
Swell Maps,
JFA,
Blossom Toes,
Scott Walker,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Golliwogs,
The Moody Blues,
The Birthday Party,
Ohio Players,
New York Dolls,
the Association,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Cybotron,
UT,
John Foxx,
Josef K,
The Selecter,
a-ha,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sandy B,
Subhumans,
Flamin' Groovies,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Fuzztones,
The Motions,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Barry Ungar,
Pulsallama,
Black Bananas,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Shoche,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Pretty Things,
Godley & Creme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.