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 Kenya and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 harpsichord 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 Sound Behaviour to the disco 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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All U.S. Maple tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Leonard Cohen,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Mummies,
Bush Tetras,
Soul II Soul,
Television,
Soft Cell,
Kool Moe Dee,
Half Japanese,
X-101,
Dave Gahan,
Carl Craig,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Siglo XX,
The Buckinghams,
Easy Going,
48th St. Collective,
Dennis Brown,
Goldenarms,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scott Walker,
La Düsseldorf,
Donny Hathaway,
Drexciya,
Dead Boys,
The Gladiators,
Jerry's Kids,
Jeru the Damaja,
Thompson Twins,
Harry Pussy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Skriet,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Theoretical Girls,
PIL,
Soulsonic Force,
The Wake,
Visage,
Don Cherry,
Brand Nubian,
Black Sheep,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
UT,
EPMD,
Lower 48,
Circle Jerks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Monks,
Yusef Lateef,
The Real Kids,
Symarip,
Absolute Body Control,
Blancmange,
The Raincoats,
Model 500,
Thee Headcoats,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.