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 Switzerland and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Morten Harket to the disco 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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All U.S. Maple tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Moleskins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Flipper,
Cluster,
ABBA,
Lower 48,
Unrelated Segments,
Amon Düül,
Max Romeo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Human League,
OOIOO,
Stiv Bators,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Junior Murvin,
The Wake,
World's Most,
Frankie Knuckles,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tropical Tobacco,
Leonard Cohen,
Sight & Sound,
Easy Going,
Marine Girls,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
X-Ray Spex,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Malaria!,
the Swans,
Idris Muhammad,
Dead Boys,
Animal Collective,
Marshall Jefferson,
FM Einheit,
UT,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Beau Brummels,
Sister Nancy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Minor Threat,
Skriet,
The Litter,
Hoover,
Joensuu 1685,
Mr. Review,
Rites of Spring,
Basic Channel,
Bluetip,
Colin Newman,
Severed Heads,
Matthew Bourne,
Aloha Tigers,
Howard Jones,
Oblivians,
Accadde A,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Carl Craig,
The Move,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.