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 Mali and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Brand Nubian to the jazz 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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Boz Scaggs,
Fela Kuti,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Urselle,
Crispian St. Peters,
Chrome,
Icehouse,
48th St. Collective,
Minnie Riperton,
Bush Tetras,
Gichy Dan,
Procol Harum,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gabor Szabo,
Aswad,
Jeff Lynne,
Section 25,
The Mummies,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nirvana,
Lyres,
John Cale,
Ten City,
Marc Almond,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ronnie Foster,
Fatback Band,
World's Most,
Kas Product,
Erykah Badu,
Deadbeat,
Lakeside,
Robert Hood,
Charles Mingus,
Visage,
Jacques Brel,
Tom Boy,
Sun Ra,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eric Copeland,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Alphaville,
The Barracudas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
JFA,
Soul II Soul,
Black Pus,
Eden Ahbez,
Country Teasers,
Young Marble Giants,
Ultravox,
The Busters,
Parry Music,
Soft Machine,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Kinks,
FM Einheit,
Sun City Girls,
The Star Department,
The Residents,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.