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 Lebanon and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Shuggie Otis to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Neil Young,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pharoah Sanders,
Arcadia,
Mr. Review,
Subhumans,
Scratch Acid,
Howard Jones,
Dave Gahan,
Talk Talk,
Isaac Hayes,
Visage,
Tommy Roe,
Tim Buckley,
10cc,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fear,
DJ Sneak,
Wolf Eyes,
Fugazi,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Josef K,
Andrew Hill,
Television Personalities,
Royal Trux,
D'Angelo,
Suburban Knight,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Young Rascals,
the Germs,
Panda Bear,
X-Ray Spex,
Ponytail,
The Names,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Glenn Branca,
Scott Walker,
Country Teasers,
The Velvet Underground,
Erasure,
Dennis Brown,
Tom Boy,
Connie Case,
CMW,
John Holt,
Bluetip,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sam Rivers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ornette Coleman,
The Doobie Brothers,
Radio Birdman,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gichy Dan,
Bush Tetras,
China Crisis,
Pantaleimon,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.