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 Romania and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the marimba 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 Pere Ubu 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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
UT,
Donny Hathaway,
FM Einheit,
Barry Ungar,
Letta Mbulu,
Fad Gadget,
Spoonie Gee,
Easy Going,
David Axelrod,
Camberwell Now,
Fugazi,
The Motions,
Q65,
Lou Reed,
Amazonics,
Delta 5,
8 Eyed Spy,
Judy Mowatt,
Alison Limerick,
Nick Fraelich,
Surgeon,
Altered Images,
Lightning Bolt,
Godley & Creme,
The Five Americans,
Eric B and Rakim,
B.T. Express,
Steve Hackett,
Warren Ellis,
Popol Vuh,
Ossler,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Human League,
Man Parrish,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Sound,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Neon Judgement,
Anakelly,
June Days,
AZ,
Maleditus Sound,
Gang Starr,
Cheater Slicks,
LL Cool J,
Terry Callier,
The Toasters,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Nation of Ulysses,
48th St. Collective,
Goldenarms,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Youth Brigade,
Sandy B,
Laurel Aitken,
Fela Kuti,
The Blackbyrds,
Suburban Knight,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.
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.