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 Tanzania and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Cairo.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 New Order to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Alarm Clocks. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Hood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
Idris Muhammad,
Althea and Donna,
Section 25,
Minny Pops,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Index,
Cheater Slicks,
DJ Sneak,
Eve St. Jones,
Funky Four + One,
Roxette,
Mantronix,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Leaves,
Spoonie Gee,
Skaos,
Kenny Larkin,
Massinfluence,
Lungfish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Blake Baxter,
Neil Young,
Bush Tetras,
Half Japanese,
Skriet,
Pole,
Soul Sonic Force,
Liliput,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Khruangbin,
Gregory Isaacs,
Freddie Wadling,
Joey Negro,
The Slackers,
Altered Images,
Harpers Bizarre,
Quadrant,
China Crisis,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scratch Acid,
Darondo,
X-102,
Charles Mingus,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Trojans,
Little Man,
AZ,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Toni Rubio,
Hardrive,
EPMD,
Alphaville,
Rufus Thomas,
Aural Exciters,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Martian,
Dennis Brown,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.