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 Oman and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Erasure to the dance 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Victims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fugazi,
Derrick Morgan,
Alice Coltrane,
Tres Demented,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grandmaster Flash,
L. Decosne,
Masters at Work,
Soft Cell,
June Days,
Peter and Kerry,
Archie Shepp,
Arcadia,
Gregory Isaacs,
World's Most,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Toasters,
Crispian St. Peters,
Nico,
Pagans,
the Slits,
The Names,
Crooked Eye,
Von Mondo,
The Sound,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Talk Talk,
Funky Four + One,
Sixth Finger,
David McCallum,
Magazine,
Reagan Youth,
Absolute Body Control,
Procol Harum,
The Motions,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Smiths,
Freddie Wadling,
Camouflage,
D'Angelo,
Sällskapet,
The Stooges,
Barbara Tucker,
Matthew Bourne,
Peter & Gordon,
Sam Rivers,
The Fugs,
Eli Mardock,
Marvin Gaye,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eric Copeland,
Johnny Osbourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kerri Chandler,
Panda Bear,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Fat Boys,
Tears for Fears,
Urselle, Urselle, Urselle, Urselle.
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.