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 Tonga and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Barclay James Harvest to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Gang Dance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
The Real Kids,
Eric Dolphy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Neu!,
Bootsy Collins,
Bob Dylan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Inner City,
Basic Channel,
Peter and Kerry,
Nils Olav,
Bad Manners,
Harmonia,
Ultimate Spinach,
PIL,
Make Up,
Marvin Gaye,
Althea and Donna,
Amon Düül II,
The Gap Band,
Brand Nubian,
The Durutti Column,
Pantaleimon,
The Gories,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Andrew Hill,
Robert Wyatt,
Agitation Free,
Kas Product,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Charles Mingus,
Thompson Twins,
Dual Sessions,
Tim Buckley,
a-ha,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Fad Gadget,
X-Ray Spex,
Crispian St. Peters,
Y Pants,
Gang Green,
Whodini,
Fugazi,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lalann,
Franke,
Dark Day,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
David Axelrod,
Malaria!,
Jeff Mills,
Iggy Pop,
UT,
Ossler,
Minor Threat,
FM Einheit,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
ABC,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.