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 Nepal and from Bologna.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 spring reverb 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
the Association,
Gabor Szabo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Black Pus,
Oblivians,
Circle Jerks,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kurtis Blow,
Con Funk Shun,
Easy Going,
The Move,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Erykah Badu,
Deadbeat,
Curtis Mayfield,
Boredoms,
Duran Duran,
The Moody Blues,
Max Romeo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Country Joe & The Fish,
D'Angelo,
Matthew Halsall,
Michelle Simonal,
Sun City Girls,
Anakelly,
E-Dancer,
Yellowson,
Tubeway Army,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Young Rascals,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Normal,
Siglo XX,
Average White Band,
The Vogues,
Flipper,
Mantronix,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
LL Cool J,
Ituana,
Patti Smith,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Smoke,
The Offenders,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott Heron,
Hot Snakes,
FM Einheit,
Todd Rundgren,
Henry Cow,
Peter and Kerry,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Raincoats,
Eli Mardock,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Swans,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.