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 Kuwait and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Alphaville to the funk 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 Eric B and Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Porter Ricks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Rotary Connection,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lee Hazlewood,
Aloha Tigers,
Basic Channel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scott Walker,
Crispy Ambulance,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lalann,
Piero Umiliani,
The Skatalites,
Pagans,
Dark Day,
Big Daddy Kane,
kango's stein massive,
Terrestrial Tones,
Soul II Soul,
Dorothy Ashby,
Boz Scaggs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Evens,
Swell Maps,
Black Flag,
Wolf Eyes,
Amon Düül II,
The Selecter,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Accadde A,
Mandrill,
Terry Callier,
Delta 5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joe Smooth,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tres Demented,
X-102,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lower 48,
Flipper,
Hardrive,
Drexciya,
Fat Boys,
Robert Wyatt,
Warsaw,
Faraquet,
Scratch Acid,
The Raincoats,
The Five Americans,
New York Dolls,
Monks,
John Coltrane,
The Monks,
Radio Birdman,
Crime,
Andrew Hill,
Quando Quango,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jandek,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.