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 Sudan and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Edmonton.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Funky Four + One to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scrapy,
Nas,
Godley & Creme,
KRS-One,
The Velvet Underground,
A Certain Ratio,
Can,
Iggy Pop,
The Sonics,
Panda Bear,
Gabor Szabo,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
X-Ray Spex,
Visage,
The Mojo Men,
The Slackers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Swans,
Ituana,
Spoonie Gee,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Supertramp,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fad Gadget,
Dave Gahan,
Arcadia,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Human League,
Bizarre Inc.,
Grandmaster Flash,
48th St. Collective,
Brass Construction,
Pylon,
The Smiths,
Ronnie Foster,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Scott Walker,
Crooked Eye,
Mandrill,
The Slits,
Shoche,
The Blues Magoos,
F. McDonald,
Kaleidoscope,
Yellowson,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Japan,
Oneida,
Ossler,
Matthew Bourne,
The Techniques,
Derrick May,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Yusef Lateef,
Arab on Radar,
The Shadows of Knight,
Tom Boy,
The Leaves,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.