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 Poland and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Spokane.
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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Can to the grime 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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
Zero Boys,
Soulsonic Force,
The Toasters,
Cymande,
Big Daddy Kane,
Silicon Teens,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Kinks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Harmonia,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gabor Szabo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jacques Brel,
Aural Exciters,
Whodini,
The Gories,
ABBA,
Simply Red,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Searchers,
Magazine,
Pulsallama,
MC5,
Tommy Roe,
Brass Construction,
Ossler,
Dawn Penn,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Misunderstood,
Ituana,
Clear Light,
Fad Gadget,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dave Gahan,
Unwound,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Piero Umiliani,
CMW,
Black Bananas,
Fear,
Reagan Youth,
Erasure,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Birthday Party,
Lower 48,
The American Breed,
The Knickerbockers,
K-Klass,
Danielle Patucci,
The Sonics,
The Vogues,
Black Sheep,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Con Funk Shun,
Sällskapet,
Ronnie Foster,
Sound Behaviour,
Warsaw,
Ornette Coleman,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.