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 Fiji and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Stereo Dub to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
KRS-One,
Bluetip,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camberwell Now,
Basic Channel,
Fela Kuti,
Barbara Tucker,
Minny Pops,
Half Japanese,
Ossler,
Lindisfarne,
Faust,
The Neon Judgement,
X-101,
Spandau Ballet,
Charles Mingus,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sixth Finger,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Human League,
Stiv Bators,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joensuu 1685,
Warsaw,
John Foxx,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Harmonia,
Alice Coltrane,
Ice-T,
The Moleskins,
This Heat,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lalann,
Mandrill,
Radiohead,
Hardrive,
Deakin,
Dennis Brown,
Soul II Soul,
Sun Ra,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Todd Terry,
the Sonics,
Anakelly,
Little Man,
The Real Kids,
Theoretical Girls,
Can,
These Immortal Souls,
the Normal,
Fear,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Underground Resistance,
Metal Thangz,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Electric Prunes,
The Seeds,
Toni Rubio,
Masters at Work,
The Monochrome Set,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.