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 Vanuatu and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the sitar 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 Bluetip to the disco 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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Sparks,
Rosa Yemen,
The Buckinghams,
Soul II Soul,
Moebius,
The Angels of Light,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Guru Guru,
Lower 48,
Rapeman,
Liliput,
Pagans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Monks,
Henry Cow,
Eden Ahbez,
Pylon,
Gabor Szabo,
Wally Richardson,
Ken Boothe,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Little Man,
Nas,
Goldenarms,
Grey Daturas,
Bobby Byrd,
Tubeway Army,
Lee Hazlewood,
Amazonics,
Lou Christie,
The Remains,
Supertramp,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Flash Fearless,
Aswad,
John Holt,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Nik Kershaw,
Eric Dolphy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ohio Players,
Reagan Youth,
Minutemen,
JFA,
Loose Ends,
Lindisfarne,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Eli Mardock,
Fugazi,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Associates,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Qualms,
Carl Craig,
Subhumans,
Harpers Bizarre,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.