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 Costa Rica and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Wire to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jacques Brel,
China Crisis,
Flamin' Groovies,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Index,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Depeche Mode,
Pharoah Sanders,
Faust,
Magazine,
The Doobie Brothers,
The J.B.'s,
AZ,
Altered Images,
Marc Almond,
Curtis Mayfield,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fat Boys,
Niagra,
The Last Poets,
Drexciya,
Reagan Youth,
John Cale,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bizarre Inc.,
Brick,
Gong,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Wolf Eyes,
Easy Going,
Stereo Dub,
Television Personalities,
Bobby Womack,
Tommy Roe,
the Soft Cell,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
10cc,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Seeds,
Gerry Rafferty,
T.S.O.L.,
Albert Ayler,
Yusef Lateef,
The Skatalites,
DNA,
Mantronix,
Japan,
Underground Resistance,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Saints,
F. McDonald,
The Busters,
Skarface,
Lakeside,
Sound Behaviour,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Symarip,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.