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 Finland and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Massinfluence to the rap 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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Lakeside,
The Offenders,
Intrusion,
the Soft Cell,
Model 500,
Monolake,
Make Up,
The Smiths,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Parry Music,
Eden Ahbez,
Moss Icon,
Audionom,
Thee Headcoats,
Sun Ra,
Grandmaster Flash,
Yaz,
Excepter,
The Count Five,
Sex Pistols,
The Modern Lovers,
Amon Düül,
Japan,
Darondo,
Das Ding,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ossler,
Angry Samoans,
Reuben Wilson,
Agitation Free,
James White and The Blacks,
New York Dolls,
Outsiders,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Alphaville,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Quadrant,
Guru Guru,
Funkadelic,
Scott Walker,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Talk Talk,
The Dead C,
Aural Exciters,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Peter & Gordon,
Soul II Soul,
Rufus Thomas,
Lindisfarne,
The Martian,
Lee Hazlewood,
Fear,
The Pop Group,
Essential Logic,
Wasted Youth,
LL Cool J,
Davy DMX,
The Selecter,
Scan 7,
Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse.
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.