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 United Kingdom and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tres Demented,
Second Layer,
The Trojans,
Heaven 17,
Visage,
Cheater Slicks,
cv313,
Gabor Szabo,
Rufus Thomas,
Metal Thangz,
The Barracudas,
Marvin Gaye,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Slave,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Swell Maps,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Brass Construction,
The Busters,
Newcleus,
Magazine,
Ronnie Foster,
The Golliwogs,
Camouflage,
Fat Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bob Dylan,
Fela Kuti,
Sam Rivers,
Sugar Minott,
Buzzcocks,
Matthew Halsall,
The Modern Lovers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dennis Brown,
Whodini,
Isaac Hayes,
Tomorrow,
Accadde A,
The Selecter,
The Residents,
The Moody Blues,
Hoover,
Sound Behaviour,
Livin' Joy,
Juan Atkins,
Brick,
China Crisis,
Magma,
Angry Samoans,
Sixth Finger,
Boz Scaggs,
The Seeds,
Deepchord,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bobby Womack,
Rod Modell,
Bronski Beat,
David McCallum,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.