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 United States and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the grime 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
KRS-One,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lebanon Hanover,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
CMW,
Gang Starr,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pharoah Sanders,
Television,
Lyres,
The Vogues,
Eric Dolphy,
Sun City Girls,
Second Layer,
Lalann,
The Fall,
Crispy Ambulance,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Skriet,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Visage,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Leonard Cohen,
Deepchord,
Derrick Morgan,
The Index,
The Remains,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stetsasonic,
Kenny Larkin,
PIL,
The Seeds,
Marmalade,
Yaz,
Alice Coltrane,
The Divine Comedy,
Josef K,
The Gories,
Skarface,
DJ Style,
Loose Ends,
Brass Construction,
Accadde A,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Max Romeo,
Q and Not U,
Minny Pops,
The Walker Brothers,
The Leaves,
Boogie Down Productions,
cv313,
Trumans Water,
Faust,
Sugar Minott,
Kurtis Blow,
Con Funk Shun,
Lower 48,
China Crisis,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.