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 Maldives and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Madrid.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Max Romeo to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger 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 mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slick Rick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Aswad,
Zero Boys,
The Durutti Column,
Anthony Braxton,
The Last Poets,
Aloha Tigers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jeff Mills,
JFA,
The Five Americans,
Erykah Badu,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ken Boothe,
Pagans,
Pere Ubu,
Schoolly D,
Ultra Naté,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sonny Sharrock,
Model 500,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
OOIOO,
Warsaw,
Yusef Lateef,
Silicon Teens,
Tim Buckley,
Skarface,
Tomorrow,
Reagan Youth,
Neu!,
Tres Demented,
48th St. Collective,
Alison Limerick,
Cybotron,
Robert Görl,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Big Daddy Kane,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Seeds,
Graham Central Station,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Organ,
10cc,
Gong,
T.S.O.L.,
Young Marble Giants,
Eric B and Rakim,
Leonard Cohen,
The Red Krayola,
Fluxion,
Dave Gahan,
Idris Muhammad,
Blake Baxter,
The Dead C,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.