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 Denmark and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Flipper to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yazoo,
Average White Band,
Dead Boys,
Jimmy McGriff,
Colin Newman,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Skatalites,
Minnie Riperton,
Basic Channel,
Organ,
Vainqueur,
Lindisfarne,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Audionom,
The Golliwogs,
Matthew Halsall,
Model 500,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Henry Cow,
Crispy Ambulance,
Letta Mbulu,
Camouflage,
The Residents,
The Fortunes,
EPMD,
X-101,
Pussy Galore,
Brothers Johnson,
Sam Rivers,
The Standells,
Sun Ra,
Jeru the Damaja,
Glambeats Corp.,
Stockholm Monsters,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Fatback Band,
Bootsy Collins,
Los Fastidios,
Groovy Waters,
Public Enemy,
Kenny Larkin,
Isaac Hayes,
Jawbox,
Bluetip,
The Gap Band,
Kas Product,
Pagans,
Max Romeo,
Spoonie Gee,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Black Moon,
The Buckinghams,
Ossler,
Gang of Four,
Bad Manners,
JFA,
The New Christs,
Andrew Hill,
Peter & Gordon,
Archie Shepp,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.