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 France and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Deepchord to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fela Kuti,
Flipper,
Main Source,
Joe Smooth,
Khruangbin,
Y Pants,
Minor Threat,
Crime,
Panda Bear,
Stetsasonic,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Birthday Party,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
John Cale,
MC5,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Surgeon,
The Music Machine,
Hashim,
Motorama,
Al Stewart,
Depeche Mode,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Chris & Cosey,
Grauzone,
Yellowson,
The Moleskins,
Flash Fearless,
Connie Case,
Bobby Byrd,
Brass Construction,
The Count Five,
The Velvet Underground,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Chrome,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Excepter,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Black Dice,
Hot Snakes,
The Sound,
The Names,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Red Krayola,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pere Ubu,
Average White Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
Patti Smith,
Guru Guru,
Jeff Mills,
Kenny Larkin,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lou Christie,
Whodini,
Grey Daturas,
Shuggie Otis,
The Misunderstood,
Throbbing Gristle,
Wasted Youth,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Hoover,
Godley & Creme,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.