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 Botswana and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 Byron Stingily to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Deakin,
Malaria!,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
John Foxx,
Fort Wilson Riot,
X-101,
Vainqueur,
the Bar-Kays,
Gong,
Crash Course in Science,
Q65,
Jeru the Damaja,
David Bowie,
Yusef Lateef,
David McCallum,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Dave Clark Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Howard Jones,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Music Machine,
Agitation Free,
The Seeds,
Bauhaus,
the Normal,
Barclay James Harvest,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joe Finger,
Royal Trux,
Ultra Naté,
Sister Nancy,
Black Moon,
T.S.O.L.,
The Residents,
Al Stewart,
Soft Cell,
Accadde A,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Boogie Down Productions,
Banda Bassotti,
KRS-One,
Roger Hodgson,
Sight & Sound,
Desert Stars,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Moby Grape,
Blancmange,
Althea and Donna,
the Soft Cell,
The Gladiators,
Wally Richardson,
Depeche Mode,
Index,
Hashim,
The Tremeloes,
Peter and Kerry,
Black Flag,
Kurtis Blow,
Toni Rubio,
The Cure,
Youth Brigade,
The J.B.'s,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.