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 Mauritius and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 organ 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 Rekid to the rock 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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans 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 spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Joyce Sims,
the Human League,
Liliput,
Dark Day,
Urselle,
The Smiths,
Glambeats Corp.,
Glenn Branca,
Cymande,
Bronski Beat,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Big Daddy Kane,
Connie Case,
Sam Rivers,
Stetsasonic,
Dual Sessions,
EPMD,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David Bowie,
Kas Product,
Minnie Riperton,
Nico,
R.M.O.,
Minutemen,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Pretty Things,
Depeche Mode,
Bootsy Collins,
The Beau Brummels,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fluxion,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Crime,
Eli Mardock,
Charles Mingus,
Second Layer,
Ken Boothe,
Matthew Halsall,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Young Rascals,
Susan Cadogan,
David Axelrod,
The Angels of Light,
The Doors,
Pussy Galore,
Suicide,
The Red Krayola,
Barry Ungar,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
K-Klass,
China Crisis,
Hoover,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pierre Henry,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Tremeloes,
Maurizio,
the Association,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.