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 Yemen and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 theremin 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 Avey Tare to the dance 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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Josef K,
Chris & Cosey,
Eurythmics,
Underground Resistance,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Marine Girls,
Soft Cell,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Scion,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Shadows of Knight,
Angry Samoans,
Joy Division,
Ken Boothe,
Swell Maps,
The Last Poets,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fela Kuti,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Derrick Morgan,
Soul II Soul,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jacob Miller,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rapeman,
The Move,
Barrington Levy,
Todd Rundgren,
Urselle,
Hoover,
the Soft Cell,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Con Funk Shun,
Skriet,
Mission of Burma,
Brand Nubian,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Parry Music,
Soft Machine,
Isaac Hayes,
Zapp,
Lee Hazlewood,
Crime,
Excepter,
Fatback Band,
Bobby Sherman,
Kerri Chandler,
Colin Newman,
Sparks,
John Cale,
Cheater Slicks,
the Normal,
Cluster,
Marcia Griffiths,
Dennis Brown,
Joey Negro,
Johnny Osbourne,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.