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 Indonesia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 sitar 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 Anakelly to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minnie Riperton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Swans,
Con Funk Shun,
Jeff Mills,
DJ Style,
Brothers Johnson,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Durutti Column,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Junior Murvin,
Mad Mike,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Parry Music,
Donny Hathaway,
The Wake,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jeru the Damaja,
Groovy Waters,
Vainqueur,
In Retrospect,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scrapy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Wings,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Unwound,
Crime,
The Dirtbombs,
Dorothy Ashby,
Motorama,
Oblivians,
Sight & Sound,
Oneida,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Michelle Simonal,
The Toasters,
Fifty Foot Hose,
D'Angelo,
Young Marble Giants,
Rotary Connection,
Morten Harket,
Pole,
Sam Rivers,
Josef K,
Clear Light,
The Buckinghams,
Faust,
Au Pairs,
The Monks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Young Rascals,
UT,
Model 500,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kevin Saunderson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Buzzcocks,
The Cure,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.