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 Cape Verde and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Goldenarms to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Amon Düül,
Babytalk,
Barbara Tucker,
Q and Not U,
Drive Like Jehu,
Public Enemy,
Massinfluence,
Young Marble Giants,
Terrestrial Tones,
Mantronix,
Ludus,
The United States of America,
the Germs,
Sexual Harrassment,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Steve Hackett,
The Slits,
Roy Ayers,
Donny Hathaway,
The Doors,
Pole,
Al Stewart,
Pierre Henry,
Ultravox,
Glenn Branca,
The Sound,
Pet Shop Boys,
Archie Shepp,
Gang Green,
Laurel Aitken,
World's Most,
Brand Nubian,
Marvin Gaye,
Vladislav Delay,
Arab on Radar,
Yellowson,
Fugazi,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Five Americans,
June Days,
Sister Nancy,
Panda Bear,
Maleditus Sound,
Outsiders,
Erykah Badu,
Max Romeo,
Hot Snakes,
Robert Hood,
Das Ding,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Sherman,
Neil Young,
Lou Christie,
Echospace,
Lalann,
The Cramps,
Silicon Teens,
Man Parrish,
Stetsasonic,
Sparks,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.