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 Gabon and from Columbus.
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 Milan and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Adolescents to the rap 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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Sam Rivers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Anakelly,
The Vogues,
The J.B.'s,
The Gladiators,
Yusef Lateef,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Standells,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Modern Lovers,
Average White Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jeff Mills,
Darondo,
Sandy B,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jawbox,
Eddi Front,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Stereo Dub,
Suburban Knight,
Khruangbin,
The Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Mars,
Wolf Eyes,
Tom Boy,
Babytalk,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Cramps,
David Bowie,
Pierre Henry,
Monks,
The Moody Blues,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jerry's Kids,
Ice-T,
Underground Resistance,
Lou Reed,
Boredoms,
The Doobie Brothers,
Model 500,
The Gap Band,
Alphaville,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fuzztones,
Sound Behaviour,
Scion,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Detroit Cobras,
Guru Guru,
Rites of Spring,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Harmonia,
The American Breed,
The Neon Judgement,
The Zeros,
Second Layer,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.