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 Finland and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Human League to the disco 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 Blossom Toes. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
F. McDonald,
Lalo Schifrin,
Freddie Wadling,
Q and Not U,
David Axelrod,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jeff Mills,
Scion,
The Residents,
Radiohead,
Ten City,
Wings,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Moody Blues,
Urselle,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fluxion,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Agent Orange,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fad Gadget,
Pulsallama,
Skaos,
The Birthday Party,
Cybotron,
Black Moon,
The Vogues,
Visage,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Make Up,
The Move,
The Selecter,
a-ha,
John Lydon,
Television,
JFA,
Mo-Dettes,
Archie Shepp,
The Happenings,
The Associates,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
David McCallum,
Prince Buster,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
CMW,
The Electric Prunes,
Animal Collective,
Delon & Dalcan,
Henry Cow,
Interpol,
Soulsonic Force,
Panda Bear,
The Victims,
Gang Green,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
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.