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 Ukraine and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 snare 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 The Martian to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 the Swans. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Glambeats Corp.,
Michelle Simonal,
The Durutti Column,
The Music Machine,
Brick,
Max Romeo,
Depeche Mode,
This Heat,
The Last Poets,
Barrington Levy,
New Age Steppers,
Sun Ra,
Roxy Music,
Isaac Hayes,
The Raincoats,
Matthew Bourne,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Absolute Body Control,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Flamin' Groovies,
Maleditus Sound,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Blake Baxter,
cv313,
Jandek,
The Blackbyrds,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
La Düsseldorf,
Joensuu 1685,
Y Pants,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Slick Rick,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Sonics,
the Association,
The Gories,
Animal Collective,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nirvana,
The Kinks,
Curtis Mayfield,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
T.S.O.L.,
Ultimate Spinach,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mary Jane Girls,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Martian,
Roger Hodgson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Black Pus,
Minny Pops,
Gichy Dan,
The Slackers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Moleskins,
Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti.
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.