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 Colombia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Eurythmics to the crunk 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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Bronski Beat,
Rhythm & Sound,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mission of Burma,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Invisible,
Faust,
Rakim,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bluetip,
Bill Wells,
Man Parrish,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Trojans,
Smog,
The Monochrome Set,
The Saints,
Dawn Penn,
Moby Grape,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Tomorrow,
Dark Day,
Pantytec,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Groovy Waters,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Banda Bassotti,
The Modern Lovers,
Brand Nubian,
Intrusion,
Easy Going,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Gladiators,
Gichy Dan,
Yellowson,
Underground Resistance,
X-102,
The Moleskins,
Skaos,
Stockholm Monsters,
Whodini,
Howard Jones,
Roger Hodgson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Yazoo,
Quando Quango,
Eric Dolphy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Todd Terry,
the Sonics,
Barclay James Harvest,
Zapp,
Mars,
The Toasters,
The Motions,
The Grass Roots,
Nick Fraelich,
Ultravox,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.