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 Bolivia and from Delhi.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 the Sonics to the disco 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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Camouflage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sister Nancy,
Visage,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gang Starr,
New Order,
PIL,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Move,
Chris & Cosey,
Gichy Dan,
Bush Tetras,
Thompson Twins,
The Cramps,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Wolf Eyes,
Clear Light,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hasil Adkins,
Ludus,
Quadrant,
Bootsy Collins,
Derrick Morgan,
Minny Pops,
Black Pus,
the Association,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Make Up,
Sugar Minott,
Negative Approach,
Robert Görl,
The Beau Brummels,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Invisible,
Brothers Johnson,
Infiniti,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Hoover,
Silicon Teens,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Happenings,
Reagan Youth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Residents,
Grey Daturas,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Johnny Clarke,
Crime,
Gil Scott Heron,
Eve St. Jones,
Max Romeo,
U.S. Maple,
The Searchers,
Goldenarms,
Pussy Galore,
Symarip,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.