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 Brunei and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 snare 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 Soft Cell to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Jeru the Damaja,
Unwound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cybotron,
Section 25,
The Smiths,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cameo,
the Swans,
Terrestrial Tones,
Black Flag,
Ludus,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pole,
Pere Ubu,
Parry Music,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Seeds,
The Gories,
The Litter,
Minor Threat,
Throbbing Gristle,
Charles Mingus,
A Certain Ratio,
Goldenarms,
Patti Smith,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Eric B and Rakim,
Au Pairs,
Donald Byrd,
Brick,
The United States of America,
Chris & Cosey,
the Fania All-Stars,
Model 500,
Excepter,
Pussy Galore,
Colin Newman,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Modern Lovers,
The Zeros,
Carl Craig,
Maleditus Sound,
Kayak,
Al Stewart,
UT,
Desert Stars,
David Bowie,
Eurythmics,
Gastr Del Sol,
Warren Ellis,
Trumans Water,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Stereo Dub,
David McCallum,
The Pretty Things,
Brass Construction,
The Move,
LL Cool J,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.