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 Montenegro and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Jimmy McGriff to the electroclash 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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Subhumans,
Marine Girls,
Hasil Adkins,
Mark Hollis,
Fear,
Zapp,
Funkadelic,
Silicon Teens,
Depeche Mode,
Lebanon Hanover,
Slick Rick,
Maurizio,
Alison Limerick,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Music Machine,
Bluetip,
Glambeats Corp.,
Flash Fearless,
Echospace,
OOIOO,
Tomorrow,
Throbbing Gristle,
Television Personalities,
Visage,
Scratch Acid,
Isaac Hayes,
Sparks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Davy DMX,
Kaleidoscope,
Ice-T,
Lou Reed,
Bobby Womack,
Surgeon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Theoretical Girls,
Popol Vuh,
The Real Kids,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sonic Youth,
Sarah Menescal,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lyres,
Todd Rundgren,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fugazi,
Oblivians,
Chris Corsano,
The Durutti Column,
Radio Birdman,
Toni Rubio,
Little Man,
The Smoke,
Severed Heads,
The Martian,
Inner City,
Whodini,
Can,
The Leaves,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.