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 India and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the crunk 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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All Inner City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mantronix,
Stiv Bators,
Crispy Ambulance,
Glambeats Corp.,
T.S.O.L.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sight & Sound,
Neu!,
the Association,
ABBA,
Khruangbin,
Symarip,
Yusef Lateef,
Loose Ends,
Television Personalities,
Derrick May,
Pantytec,
Mission of Burma,
The Cure,
Traffic Nightmare,
kango's stein massive,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
AZ,
Section 25,
Pierre Henry,
The Pretty Things,
R.M.O.,
Kaleidoscope,
The Gories,
the Human League,
B.T. Express,
The Velvet Underground,
Mr. Review,
Soul II Soul,
Ohio Players,
Darondo,
The Motions,
The Pop Group,
Interpol,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Surgeon,
the Sonics,
Ken Boothe,
Swell Maps,
Tres Demented,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cluster,
Easy Going,
Minor Threat,
Marvin Gaye,
Joe Smooth,
Mo-Dettes,
Deepchord,
Jeff Mills,
Ten City,
Bob Dylan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Dave Gahan,
Scan 7,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.