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 Equatorial Guinea and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lyres to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Scrapy,
James White and The Blacks,
Blancmange,
Bobby Sherman,
Kas Product,
Dawn Penn,
Alison Limerick,
kango's stein massive,
Magma,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sound Behaviour,
Jerry's Kids,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Inner City,
The New Christs,
The Misunderstood,
Warsaw,
Reuben Wilson,
Audionom,
Morten Harket,
Q and Not U,
Bronski Beat,
The Real Kids,
Rosa Yemen,
Public Enemy,
Theoretical Girls,
DJ Style,
FM Einheit,
Joy Division,
The Grass Roots,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Swans,
Robert Hood,
John Lydon,
Los Fastidios,
Soulsonic Force,
Eli Mardock,
Roxy Music,
Das Ding,
The Barracudas,
Brass Construction,
LL Cool J,
The Monochrome Set,
Peter and Kerry,
Todd Rundgren,
Radiohead,
Harpers Bizarre,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kenny Larkin,
Gang Gang Dance,
Joe Finger,
David McCallum,
Livin' Joy,
Danielle Patucci,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Unwound,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.