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 Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Cure to the rock 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 Theoretical Girls. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Gang Dance 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Guru Guru,
Ituana,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sonny Sharrock,
Robert Hood,
In Retrospect,
Grauzone,
The Misunderstood,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fatback Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Little Man,
Bizarre Inc.,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Max Romeo,
The Cramps,
Joe Smooth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rotary Connection,
Janne Schatter,
L. Decosne,
La Düsseldorf,
Todd Rundgren,
Bronski Beat,
Matthew Halsall,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
ABC,
Lalann,
Godley & Creme,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Minor Threat,
The Electric Prunes,
The Busters,
Chrome,
The Knickerbockers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Skarface,
Gabor Szabo,
The Tremeloes,
Bobby Byrd,
Shoche,
Television Personalities,
David Axelrod,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Mummies,
Delta 5,
Sex Pistols,
Malaria!,
Supertramp,
Theoretical Girls,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
John Foxx,
Spandau Ballet,
Flamin' Groovies,
Hasil Adkins,
Eddi Front,
Accadde A,
Lee Hazlewood,
Crispian St. Peters,
Morten Harket,
The Dead C,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.