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 Russia and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the guitar 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 Kaleidoscope to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Can,
Eddi Front,
The Sonics,
Porter Ricks,
Todd Terry,
Neil Young,
Index,
a-ha,
Jandek,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Erykah Badu,
David McCallum,
Khruangbin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
B.T. Express,
Joy Division,
The Slits,
The Mojo Men,
Prince Buster,
Dawn Penn,
Pantytec,
Gichy Dan,
Oblivians,
Heaven 17,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Moleskins,
Joensuu 1685,
Bluetip,
Godley & Creme,
Japan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Make Up,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kerri Chandler,
Sight & Sound,
Average White Band,
Q and Not U,
X-102,
Delta 5,
Warsaw,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Angels of Light,
Cluster,
Janne Schatter,
Banda Bassotti,
The Last Poets,
E-Dancer,
Bang On A Can,
Surgeon,
Terry Callier,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eden Ahbez,
The Smoke,
Babytalk,
D'Angelo,
Sun Ra,
Al Stewart,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.