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 Cambodia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Toni Rubio to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis 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 synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
The Offenders,
OOIOO,
Erykah Badu,
The Red Krayola,
Crash Course in Science,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Busters,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lyres,
10cc,
Swell Maps,
the Slits,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bootsy Collins,
Charles Mingus,
Shoche,
Alison Limerick,
Dual Sessions,
Sällskapet,
Icehouse,
Leonard Cohen,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Das Ding,
Sam Rivers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Chris Corsano,
Gabor Szabo,
The Neon Judgement,
Y Pants,
Section 25,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Barracudas,
The Last Poets,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Fuzztones,
Soft Machine,
Vladislav Delay,
Zapp,
Josef K,
Ralphi Rosario,
Grauzone,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Glambeats Corp.,
Howard Jones,
Marc Almond,
Ituana,
Gastr Del Sol,
L. Decosne,
The Star Department,
Eric Dolphy,
The Standells,
Bad Manners,
Boredoms,
UT,
Morten Harket,
Second Layer,
Kayak,
Tubeway Army,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.