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 Gabon and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Royal Trux to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James White and The Blacks,
Bad Manners,
The Smoke,
Rod Modell,
Eddi Front,
Donny Hathaway,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Modern Lovers,
Dennis Brown,
Erasure,
The Cure,
Cameo,
Spandau Ballet,
Pylon,
New Order,
Banda Bassotti,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Sound,
The Slits,
L. Decosne,
Graham Central Station,
The Angels of Light,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Litter,
Mad Mike,
Lightning Bolt,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Hoover,
The Young Rascals,
In Retrospect,
Crooked Eye,
Kerri Chandler,
Circle Jerks,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fire Engines,
Yellowson,
Johnny Clarke,
Joensuu 1685,
K-Klass,
the Slits,
Amon Düül,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ornette Coleman,
The Selecter,
Lucky Dragons,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Remains,
Marc Almond,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kurtis Blow,
Soft Cell,
Cal Tjader,
The Moody Blues,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gichy Dan,
Soulsonic Force,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.