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 Congo and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Public Enemy to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 A Flock of Seagulls. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
Chrome,
the Normal,
The Mummies,
the Human League,
Erasure,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fad Gadget,
Quadrant,
Boogie Down Productions,
Tim Buckley,
Eddi Front,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Prince Buster,
Flipper,
The Tremeloes,
The Evens,
Archie Shepp,
Pierre Henry,
Bootsy Collins,
DJ Style,
Can,
Siglo XX,
The United States of America,
Youth Brigade,
Slick Rick,
Graham Central Station,
Tropical Tobacco,
Niagra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jawbox,
Jacob Miller,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Walker Brothers,
Carl Craig,
Fifty Foot Hose,
AZ,
Aswad,
Rakim,
Brass Construction,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Zero Boys,
Fat Boys,
Bob Dylan,
The Barracudas,
Metal Thangz,
Kas Product,
Marvin Gaye,
Minutemen,
T. Rex,
Sun Ra,
Agitation Free,
Be Bop Deluxe,
10cc,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Stooges,
Crispy Ambulance,
Alphaville,
Kurtis Blow,
Frankie Knuckles,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.