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 Estonia and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 clarinet 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 Rhythm & Sound to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
The Names,
The Toasters,
Con Funk Shun,
New York Dolls,
The Litter,
Roxy Music,
New Age Steppers,
Cybotron,
kango's stein massive,
Harmonia,
Delon & Dalcan,
Susan Cadogan,
Sarah Menescal,
Interpol,
Chris & Cosey,
Sonny Sharrock,
David Bowie,
June of 44,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Fall,
Skriet,
Zapp,
Khruangbin,
The Doors,
Smog,
Derrick Morgan,
The Star Department,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cymande,
Saccharine Trust,
The Associates,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Walker Brothers,
Altered Images,
Barclay James Harvest,
Vladislav Delay,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Cameo,
Monolake,
Bauhaus,
Bootsy Collins,
The Gun Club,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Silicon Teens,
Fugazi,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Moebius,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joe Smooth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Alton Ellis,
Los Fastidios,
Soft Machine,
Can,
Porter Ricks,
Brand Nubian,
Maurizio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Chrome,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultra Naté,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.