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 Syria and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Lou Reed 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 Funky Four + One to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Slits. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Traffic Nightmare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quantec,
Kayak,
Godley & Creme,
Freddie Wadling,
Chris & Cosey,
Robert Wyatt,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Japan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DJ Sneak,
Brick,
The Cosmic Jokers,
X-101,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
June of 44,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Idris Muhammad,
Janne Schatter,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
a-ha,
Dead Boys,
Danielle Patucci,
Trumans Water,
Supertramp,
Urselle,
Agent Orange,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ronnie Foster,
Simply Red,
Smog,
Second Layer,
Ralphi Rosario,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Excepter,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
Erykah Badu,
Rekid,
Donald Byrd,
Barbara Tucker,
Peter and Kerry,
F. McDonald,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bobby Sherman,
The Offenders,
The Fugs,
Franke,
Infiniti,
Circle Jerks,
Alice Coltrane,
JFA,
Mr. Review,
The Saints,
Robert Hood,
Mo-Dettes,
The Buckinghams,
The Moody Blues,
Dual Sessions,
Alison Limerick,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Girls At Our Best!,
Absolute Body Control,
Minor Threat,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.