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 Israel and from Salvador.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Portland.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Pantaleimon to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
The Stooges,
Derrick May,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kerrie Biddell,
Graham Central Station,
Eve St. Jones,
EPMD,
Magma,
the Association,
the Bar-Kays,
Gang Green,
Brothers Johnson,
Curtis Mayfield,
48th St. Collective,
Negative Approach,
Niagra,
Skaos,
Electric Prunes,
Icehouse,
Gang Starr,
Mantronix,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lakeside,
Darondo,
Boredoms,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Audionom,
Index,
Rosa Yemen,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Man Parrish,
Bill Near,
Los Fastidios,
Soulsonic Force,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Glenn Branca,
The Move,
Arcadia,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Martian,
Albert Ayler,
Kool Moe Dee,
Idris Muhammad,
a-ha,
The Residents,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ken Boothe,
Popol Vuh,
Deakin,
Spandau Ballet,
Panda Bear,
Anakelly,
Lou Christie,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter & Gordon,
Quantec,
Rufus Thomas,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.