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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Gichy Dan to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All K-Klass tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Lakeside,
Eric Copeland,
Popol Vuh,
Andrew Hill,
This Heat,
Tubeway Army,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marvin Gaye,
The Beau Brummels,
New Age Steppers,
Reagan Youth,
Suburban Knight,
Groovy Waters,
Skarface,
Arab on Radar,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lightning Bolt,
The Fire Engines,
Alice Coltrane,
June of 44,
Peter and Kerry,
Jawbox,
Marcia Griffiths,
Model 500,
T. Rex,
Trumans Water,
The Modern Lovers,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ultravox,
Prince Buster,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Section 25,
Pierre Henry,
Rapeman,
Ten City,
World's Most,
Television Personalities,
Yazoo,
The Raincoats,
Man Parrish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sound Behaviour,
The Misunderstood,
Godley & Creme,
The Dirtbombs,
Aaron Thompson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Dual Sessions,
Con Funk Shun,
Warren Ellis,
Joey Negro,
Lalann,
Mary Jane Girls,
Janne Schatter,
The Walker Brothers,
Rod Modell,
The Doors,
Kerrie Biddell,
Urselle,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.