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 Ghana and from Sao Paulo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 guitar 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 Agent Orange to the funk 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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
The Divine Comedy,
Connie Case,
Cameo,
Bronski Beat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Toni Rubio,
Deadbeat,
the Human League,
MDC,
Lyres,
June of 44,
Goldenarms,
Essential Logic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Angry Samoans,
Steve Hackett,
The Blackbyrds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Donald Byrd,
A Certain Ratio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Byrd,
Clear Light,
Sällskapet,
H. Thieme,
Babytalk,
Morten Harket,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dual Sessions,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rod Modell,
Neil Young,
Guru Guru,
Lucky Dragons,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Aswad,
L. Decosne,
the Normal,
The Music Machine,
David Bowie,
Delta 5,
UT,
The Slackers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bluetip,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ludus,
Mandrill,
Suicide,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Q and Not U,
Echospace,
Banda Bassotti,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lungfish,
Jandek,
The Move,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.