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 Guatemala and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Black Sheep to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Crispy Ambulance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Minnie Riperton,
The American Breed,
Avey Tare,
Kas Product,
China Crisis,
Delta 5,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sällskapet,
Derrick May,
Deepchord,
The Gap Band,
Kaleidoscope,
Clear Light,
Main Source,
Alice Coltrane,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sugar Minott,
Soft Cell,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fatback Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pantytec,
Pylon,
Lou Reed,
Blancmange,
Accadde A,
Television,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ponytail,
Harmonia,
Neu!,
Pere Ubu,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bizarre Inc.,
Agent Orange,
Excepter,
Ralphi Rosario,
Minutemen,
Sun City Girls,
the Normal,
Public Enemy,
Jacob Miller,
Angry Samoans,
Tres Demented,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Swans,
Metal Thangz,
Duran Duran,
Carl Craig,
R.M.O.,
X-Ray Spex,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Maurizio,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Stockholm Monsters,
La Düsseldorf,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Vainqueur,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.