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 Argentina and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Smog to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Rufus Thomas,
Robert Wyatt,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Depeche Mode,
Circle Jerks,
The American Breed,
Qualms,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gong,
Andrew Hill,
Surgeon,
Lyres,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Negative Approach,
The Leaves,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Al Stewart,
Toni Rubio,
Reagan Youth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Swell Maps,
Connie Case,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Los Fastidios,
Yaz,
Soul II Soul,
World's Most,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
the Normal,
Barclay James Harvest,
Todd Rundgren,
Mary Jane Girls,
June Days,
Moss Icon,
OOIOO,
Funkadelic,
Monolake,
Royal Trux,
Fluxion,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Robert Hood,
The Saints,
Smog,
Sly & The Family Stone,
EPMD,
The Knickerbockers,
Wasted Youth,
Altered Images,
China Crisis,
Soul Sonic Force,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Mad Mike,
Jimmy McGriff,
Erasure,
The Victims,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.