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 Croatia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Robert Görl to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eurythmics,
John Coltrane,
Mark Hollis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Silicon Teens,
Girls At Our Best!,
In Retrospect,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Susan Cadogan,
Depeche Mode,
Dennis Brown,
Nirvana,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sun Ra,
Brand Nubian,
Lee Hazlewood,
Curtis Mayfield,
Scott Walker,
Scrapy,
The Sound,
Kaleidoscope,
Amazonics,
Bob Dylan,
Youth Brigade,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Don Cherry,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Young Rascals,
Nico,
Ossler,
Suburban Knight,
DJ Style,
Warren Ellis,
Underground Resistance,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Eve St. Jones,
Television Personalities,
the Slits,
Harpers Bizarre,
Marvin Gaye,
The Doobie Brothers,
Donny Hathaway,
Hot Snakes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eden Ahbez,
Peter & Gordon,
Black Bananas,
The Dirtbombs,
Tears for Fears,
Leonard Cohen,
Thompson Twins,
Swans,
Scientists,
OOIOO,
The Cure,
Harmonia,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Trojans,
Q65,
AZ,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.