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 Iraq and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Salvador.
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 oboe 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 Kool Moe Dee to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Fatback Band,
The Fall,
Slick Rick,
Au Pairs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Eve St. Jones,
Malaria!,
Ultra Naté,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Essential Logic,
Robert Hood,
the Normal,
The Cosmic Jokers,
JFA,
One Last Wish,
the Sonics,
Dawn Penn,
Cybotron,
Leonard Cohen,
Funky Four + One,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Minny Pops,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rapeman,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Easy Going,
The Fortunes,
Silicon Teens,
Guru Guru,
The Knickerbockers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rekid,
B.T. Express,
the Fania All-Stars,
Erasure,
Q65,
Magma,
Can,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
a-ha,
The Count Five,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bootsy Collins,
The Pretty Things,
Lakeside,
Hardrive,
Yazoo,
Goldenarms,
The Fire Engines,
Delta 5,
ABC,
The Raincoats,
Intrusion,
Saccharine Trust,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Techniques,
Lou Reed,
MDC,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.