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 Bangladesh and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Peter & Gordon to the disco 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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mission of Burma 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
These Immortal Souls,
Nirvana,
Lindisfarne,
Oneida,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Juan Atkins,
The Dead C,
Idris Muhammad,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sound Behaviour,
Funky Four + One,
Chris & Cosey,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DJ Style,
John Foxx,
Minor Threat,
Subhumans,
Rotary Connection,
the Germs,
Spandau Ballet,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sarah Menescal,
Jandek,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rakim,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
X-Ray Spex,
Ultimate Spinach,
Radiohead,
Robert Hood,
U.S. Maple,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Drexciya,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Newcleus,
Throbbing Gristle,
Davy DMX,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Donny Hathaway,
Nick Fraelich,
Grey Daturas,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Al Stewart,
Kenny Larkin,
Stetsasonic,
Trumans Water,
The Residents,
Bill Near,
The Move,
The Fire Engines,
Gang Green,
Roxette,
CMW,
Loose Ends,
Brand Nubian,
Easy Going,
Visage,
The Velvet Underground,
Arcadia,
Yaz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.