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 South Africa and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Adolescents to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
the Swans,
Frankie Knuckles,
Thompson Twins,
Sonny Sharrock,
David Bowie,
X-102,
The Gun Club,
kango's stein massive,
Ronan,
Kas Product,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Banda Bassotti,
Jimmy McGriff,
Suicide,
Symarip,
The Remains,
Gichy Dan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Hasil Adkins,
Scan 7,
Eurythmics,
Kenny Larkin,
John Cale,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Dirtbombs,
Barclay James Harvest,
Brand Nubian,
Kevin Saunderson,
Peter and Kerry,
Make Up,
Marvin Gaye,
Yusef Lateef,
Visage,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ice-T,
Supertramp,
the Association,
Gang Green,
Quando Quango,
Mad Mike,
Jeru the Damaja,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wally Richardson,
Jerry's Kids,
Maleditus Sound,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Procol Harum,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Roxette,
Q and Not U,
Monks,
The Beau Brummels,
The Slits,
Sexual Harrassment,
Arthur Verocai,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays.
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.