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 United States and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Magazine to the punk 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 the Association. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Chris & Cosey,
Television Personalities,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rufus Thomas,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Residents,
Carl Craig,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Hot Snakes,
Funky Four + One,
Magazine,
Supertramp,
Johnny Osbourne,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gregory Isaacs,
Roy Ayers,
Dark Day,
The Angels of Light,
Wolf Eyes,
Juan Atkins,
Todd Rundgren,
Connie Case,
Average White Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Happenings,
The Knickerbockers,
B.T. Express,
The Monochrome Set,
New Age Steppers,
Blancmange,
Cybotron,
Audionom,
Marc Almond,
The Techniques,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Derrick Morgan,
The Zeros,
The Skatalites,
The Leaves,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jawbox,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Half Japanese,
Man Parrish,
Hasil Adkins,
Terrestrial Tones,
John Foxx,
Nirvana,
Joey Negro,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Derrick May,
Delon & Dalcan,
Interpol,
Oneida,
The Misunderstood,
Jesper Dahlback,
Laurel Aitken,
Talk Talk,
The Fortunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eli Mardock,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.