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 Poland and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Edmonton.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Searchers to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Isaac Hayes,
Arcadia,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lou Reed,
Brothers Johnson,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Mojo Men,
Tres Demented,
Average White Band,
Matthew Halsall,
The American Breed,
Aloha Tigers,
Darondo,
Minnie Riperton,
Crooked Eye,
X-101,
Flamin' Groovies,
8 Eyed Spy,
Albert Ayler,
The Slackers,
the Sonics,
Mary Jane Girls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Fugazi,
Jeff Mills,
The Names,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kurtis Blow,
Deakin,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Carl Craig,
Pole,
Sandy B,
Skarface,
Television,
Susan Cadogan,
Loose Ends,
Erykah Badu,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marvin Gaye,
Bauhaus,
Joe Smooth,
Slave,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Zero Boys,
The Buckinghams,
Eric Dolphy,
Magazine,
Rekid,
Cameo,
The Index,
Oblivians,
Royal Trux,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Swans,
Avey Tare,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Michelle Simonal,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.