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 Uzbekistan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Soft Cell to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott Heron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
K-Klass,
Chris Corsano,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
OOIOO,
Yellowson,
Procol Harum,
Panda Bear,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Shoche,
Tropical Tobacco,
This Heat,
Main Source,
The Zeros,
Crime,
Lightning Bolt,
Sparks,
Sight & Sound,
Jesper Dahlback,
Harmonia,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Evens,
Scientists,
R.M.O.,
The Saints,
Sonic Youth,
Marcia Griffiths,
Radiopuhelimet,
Barrington Levy,
Faust,
Funky Four + One,
Letta Mbulu,
Aaron Thompson,
Morten Harket,
John Holt,
Wings,
The Last Poets,
Dual Sessions,
Silicon Teens,
Dennis Brown,
Khruangbin,
The Sound,
Derrick Morgan,
Kurtis Blow,
Todd Terry,
Zapp,
Sandy B,
Flipper,
X-Ray Spex,
The Move,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cluster,
Boredoms,
Scion,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Soul Sonic Force,
Don Cherry,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.