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 Moldova and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Pantaleimon 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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Radio Birdman,
Gabor Szabo,
Wolf Eyes,
The J.B.'s,
Marvin Gaye,
Glenn Branca,
Main Source,
Intrusion,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sun Ra,
Pole,
Camberwell Now,
the Association,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
48th St. Collective,
Mantronix,
Con Funk Shun,
Bad Manners,
Brothers Johnson,
Youth Brigade,
Nation of Ulysses,
Peter & Gordon,
Beasts of Bourbon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neu!,
EPMD,
The Doobie Brothers,
Spandau Ballet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Black Flag,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Eric B and Rakim,
This Heat,
Rekid,
Soft Cell,
Josef K,
Erasure,
10cc,
Eve St. Jones,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bush Tetras,
The Durutti Column,
Davy DMX,
These Immortal Souls,
James White and The Blacks,
Yusef Lateef,
The Tremeloes,
the Germs,
Brand Nubian,
Fear,
Kool Moe Dee,
Infiniti,
The Selecter,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Slick Rick,
The Happenings,
Ten City,
Ossler,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.