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 Malaysia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Swans to the dance 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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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?
The Gap Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Roy Ayers,
Gang Green,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eddi Front,
Masters at Work,
Whodini,
Alphaville,
Flamin' Groovies,
Stetsasonic,
Qualms,
Barbara Tucker,
DJ Sneak,
Glenn Branca,
Index,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Unwound,
Cal Tjader,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Sound,
U.S. Maple,
Reagan Youth,
DNA,
Yusef Lateef,
The Angels of Light,
Lakeside,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Panda Bear,
Slave,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Suburban Knight,
Model 500,
Duran Duran,
Crime,
Crispian St. Peters,
FM Einheit,
Suicide,
Joensuu 1685,
Kenny Larkin,
Fat Boys,
Deadbeat,
Junior Murvin,
CMW,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Associates,
Andrew Hill,
Roxette,
Malaria!,
Pole,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Dirtbombs,
Liliput,
Brand Nubian,
Dave Gahan,
Aloha Tigers,
Essential Logic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.