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 the UAE and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb 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 Zero Boys to the rock 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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Tres Demented,
Sarah Menescal,
Stetsasonic,
New Order,
Tears for Fears,
Robert Hood,
The Invisible,
MDC,
Little Man,
Flash Fearless,
The Detroit Cobras,
Man Eating Sloth,
Erasure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Aloha Tigers,
Letta Mbulu,
the Bar-Kays,
Grauzone,
Average White Band,
Derrick May,
KRS-One,
Lebanon Hanover,
Neil Young,
Lou Reed,
Kaleidoscope,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
cv313,
The Cure,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Prince Buster,
Connie Case,
Schoolly D,
In Retrospect,
Harry Pussy,
John Cale,
the Slits,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Clear Light,
Pagans,
The Moleskins,
Alphaville,
Niagra,
Dead Boys,
Amon Düül,
Arthur Verocai,
Fad Gadget,
Johnny Clarke,
Traffic Nightmare,
Livin' Joy,
Gang Green,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Moody Blues,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Scan 7,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Wire,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.