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 Palau and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ohio Players to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
Loose Ends,
The Mighty Diamonds,
the Normal,
Peter & Gordon,
The Toasters,
Negative Approach,
The Blackbyrds,
Boz Scaggs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Oblivians,
Vainqueur,
Suicide,
Television Personalities,
Kurtis Blow,
Sonic Youth,
R.M.O.,
The Dave Clark Five,
Urselle,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dead Boys,
Bang On A Can,
Gong,
Japan,
Toni Rubio,
Flash Fearless,
Steve Hackett,
DJ Style,
Sam Rivers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Siglo XX,
the Germs,
The Raincoats,
Radio Birdman,
Howard Jones,
World's Most,
Amazonics,
Chrome,
DJ Sneak,
Von Mondo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Todd Terry,
Harry Pussy,
Marine Girls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Gories,
Scrapy,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Cure,
Hasil Adkins,
Spoonie Gee,
Magma,
Junior Murvin,
Todd Rundgren,
Gastr Del Sol,
Barrington Levy,
Absolute Body Control,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pharoah Sanders,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fortunes,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.