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 Georgia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
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 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 Rekid to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & Metallica record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ronan,
Nas,
Lucky Dragons,
Saccharine Trust,
the Soft Cell,
Pagans,
Nils Olav,
The Red Krayola,
Crispy Ambulance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kayak,
Hashim,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ornette Coleman,
Steve Hackett,
H. Thieme,
Soul II Soul,
Mantronix,
Cheater Slicks,
the Sonics,
Monks,
Ronnie Foster,
Oblivians,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Quantec,
Japan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Absolute Body Control,
Neil Young,
Black Bananas,
Girls At Our Best!,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sun City Girls,
The Associates,
Aloha Tigers,
Niagra,
The Sound,
Hot Snakes,
Joy Division,
Darondo,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Morten Harket,
Nik Kershaw,
Minny Pops,
Camouflage,
Prince Buster,
The Slits,
DJ Sneak,
Talk Talk,
Smog,
Kaleidoscope,
The Motions,
Stiv Bators,
The Wake,
The Names,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Standells,
Main Source,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.