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 Greece and from London.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Arthur Verocai to the grunge 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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
The Music Machine,
Parry Music,
Scott Walker,
The Smoke,
The Velvet Underground,
The Gories,
Can,
Juan Atkins,
Japan,
Kas Product,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bizarre Inc.,
Curtis Mayfield,
Leonard Cohen,
Barbara Tucker,
LL Cool J,
Roger Hodgson,
Lungfish,
Underground Resistance,
The Wake,
Beasts of Bourbon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Panda Bear,
Prince Buster,
Rufus Thomas,
Oneida,
Eli Mardock,
Scan 7,
Eddi Front,
Nico,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Doors,
Cluster,
Popol Vuh,
Pantytec,
Piero Umiliani,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Seeds,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rosa Yemen,
The Durutti Column,
Ralphi Rosario,
the Fania All-Stars,
Eve St. Jones,
Carl Craig,
Sex Pistols,
Scion,
The Names,
Agent Orange,
Reagan Youth,
Nas,
The Gun Club,
Junior Murvin,
Johnny Clarke,
Kurtis Blow,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Quando Quango,
Howard Jones,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.