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 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Essential Logic to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Panda Bear,
Underground Resistance,
the Human League,
the Soft Cell,
K-Klass,
Sparks,
Tomorrow,
Peter and Kerry,
Dead Boys,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Piero Umiliani,
Alice Coltrane,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Boredoms,
Section 25,
Yaz,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Outsiders,
Gastr Del Sol,
La Düsseldorf,
The Fortunes,
Crime,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Guru Guru,
The Index,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camberwell Now,
Sun Ra,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Slackers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wire,
Roxy Music,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Jeff Lynne,
The Names,
The Birthday Party,
Ralphi Rosario,
Michelle Simonal,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Procol Harum,
Black Bananas,
Slick Rick,
Gang Green,
Arthur Verocai,
James White and The Blacks,
Con Funk Shun,
Glenn Branca,
Loose Ends,
Gong,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bobby Sherman,
The United States of America,
Swans,
Davy DMX,
The Human League,
Porter Ricks,
Brass Construction,
T. Rex,
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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.