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 East Timor and from Beijing.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Yellowson to the grime 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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
Essential Logic,
Gerry Rafferty,
Swans,
Flipper,
The Smoke,
Ituana,
JFA,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Minutemen,
Severed Heads,
AZ,
The Toasters,
Fad Gadget,
Bobby Sherman,
Cheater Slicks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Yellowson,
The Blackbyrds,
Joensuu 1685,
Jerry's Kids,
Lalann,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Grauzone,
Icehouse,
June Days,
Rites of Spring,
Camouflage,
Loose Ends,
Scientists,
Derrick Morgan,
Little Man,
Ice-T,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Patti Smith,
Eurythmics,
The Divine Comedy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Young Marble Giants,
Youth Brigade,
Ronnie Foster,
Marvin Gaye,
Bobby Byrd,
Ken Boothe,
Matthew Halsall,
Gang Starr,
Public Enemy,
Alton Ellis,
Sun Ra,
Michelle Simonal,
The Offenders,
Animal Collective,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nas,
The Monochrome Set,
Surgeon,
Tommy Roe,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.