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 Jordan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 oboe 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 Grandmaster Flash to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin 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 Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Searchers,
Ossler,
Wolf Eyes,
ABC,
The Techniques,
Kool Moe Dee,
MC5,
Dead Boys,
Aloha Tigers,
Brass Construction,
Warren Ellis,
The Remains,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Isaac Hayes,
Sonic Youth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Names,
Schoolly D,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Tubeway Army,
Stetsasonic,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eddi Front,
Second Layer,
Duran Duran,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Fire Engines,
David Bowie,
Eurythmics,
Roy Ayers,
The Vogues,
The Leaves,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
LL Cool J,
Mission of Burma,
The Busters,
In Retrospect,
Parry Music,
Judy Mowatt,
The Saints,
Hoover,
OOIOO,
the Sonics,
Jacob Miller,
FM Einheit,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kas Product,
Brand Nubian,
Junior Murvin,
Smog,
Deepchord,
The Smoke,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Alton Ellis,
Jeru the Damaja,
Nico,
Pylon,
Talk Talk,
The Divine Comedy,
Flipper,
Moss Icon,
Motorama, Motorama, Motorama, Motorama.
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.