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 Libya and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 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 Grandmaster Flash to the grunge 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
The Tremeloes,
Funky Four + One,
Lucky Dragons,
Talk Talk,
The Smiths,
Jeff Lynne,
Gabor Szabo,
Sparks,
The Alarm Clocks,
OOIOO,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soulsonic Force,
Saccharine Trust,
Cluster,
Dual Sessions,
Q and Not U,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Judy Mowatt,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Visage,
Cybotron,
New York Dolls,
Big Daddy Kane,
PIL,
Aloha Tigers,
The Cure,
Eve St. Jones,
The Cosmic Jokers,
New Order,
Magma,
Mad Mike,
Ponytail,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bang On A Can,
Siglo XX,
Pylon,
The Fuzztones,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lalann,
Isaac Hayes,
Camouflage,
Supertramp,
Ten City,
Masters at Work,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Swans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Motions,
Joensuu 1685,
The Mojo Men,
Fela Kuti,
Excepter,
Skaos,
Delon & Dalcan,
Roy Ayers,
The Star Department,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.