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 Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manila.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell to the jazz 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Carl Craig,
Patti Smith,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Boogie Down Productions,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Young Rascals,
Dual Sessions,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Harry Pussy,
The Five Americans,
Maleditus Sound,
Agent Orange,
Inner City,
Roger Hodgson,
Con Funk Shun,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
K-Klass,
The Divine Comedy,
Cheater Slicks,
Outsiders,
Mad Mike,
Procol Harum,
Crime,
Goldenarms,
Supertramp,
The Velvet Underground,
June Days,
Archie Shepp,
Quadrant,
Sex Pistols,
Mark Hollis,
Pagans,
June of 44,
Mantronix,
Ohio Players,
The Cramps,
Silicon Teens,
DJ Style,
The Zeros,
Banda Bassotti,
8 Eyed Spy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Loose Ends,
The Gun Club,
Scrapy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Graham Central Station,
Drexciya,
Danielle Patucci,
Joey Negro,
Bang On A Can,
Bobby Byrd,
Fluxion,
Spoonie Gee,
Althea and Donna,
T.S.O.L.,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.