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 Ghana and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 JFA to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Maurizio,
T.S.O.L.,
These Immortal Souls,
E-Dancer,
Jeff Mills,
Todd Terry,
the Association,
The Divine Comedy,
Brothers Johnson,
Alton Ellis,
Patti Smith,
Funky Four + One,
Television Personalities,
John Coltrane,
The Selecter,
Adolescents,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Dave Gahan,
Deepchord,
Urselle,
Neu!,
Brick,
Eurythmics,
Tres Demented,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lindisfarne,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Evens,
Pylon,
Parry Music,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Howard Jones,
Skarface,
The Offenders,
The Flesh Eaters,
Arthur Verocai,
Electric Light Orchestra,
David Bowie,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lungfish,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Television,
X-101,
Sun City Girls,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Darondo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Leaves,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eve St. Jones,
Joy Division,
The Angels of Light,
Rekid,
Joe Smooth,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Alphaville,
Rosa Yemen,
The Moleskins,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.