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 Bulgaria and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 organ 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 Schoolly D to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Residents,
Boredoms,
48th St. Collective,
Jacob Miller,
Aloha Tigers,
The Misunderstood,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Connie Case,
Vainqueur,
Average White Band,
Pole,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soul Sonic Force,
Soft Machine,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Crime,
KRS-One,
Soul II Soul,
Groovy Waters,
Morten Harket,
Shoche,
The Walker Brothers,
Soulsonic Force,
Reagan Youth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Deadbeat,
The Remains,
Oblivians,
Sam Rivers,
Bill Wells,
The Zeros,
China Crisis,
The Blues Magoos,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rhythm & Sound,
Country Teasers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Little Man,
Parry Music,
The J.B.'s,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ronnie Foster,
Loose Ends,
Basic Channel,
The Gap Band,
H. Thieme,
The Star Department,
Minny Pops,
Flash Fearless,
The Names,
The Monks,
Gabor Szabo,
ABC,
Stiv Bators,
Vladislav Delay,
Depeche Mode,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Funkadelic,
The Mojo Men,
Arthur Verocai,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.