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 Belize and from New York.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Tres Demented to the grunge 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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis 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?
Pharoah Sanders,
The Smiths,
AZ,
Negative Approach,
T. Rex,
Siglo XX,
Oblivians,
Eurythmics,
Kenny Larkin,
Man Eating Sloth,
Deadbeat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jeff Lynne,
Rakim,
Inner City,
Amazonics,
Godley & Creme,
Ultimate Spinach,
Monolake,
JFA,
The Velvet Underground,
The Invisible,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
the Normal,
Soft Machine,
Television,
World's Most,
Half Japanese,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pierre Henry,
Soul II Soul,
KRS-One,
Barry Ungar,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Nirvana,
The Busters,
Ornette Coleman,
Crime,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Whodini,
Robert Görl,
Echospace,
Magma,
The Index,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minnie Riperton,
Piero Umiliani,
Motorama,
CMW,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Cramps,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Man Parrish,
Scientists,
Pussy Galore,
Smog,
Joe Smooth,
Can,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Supertramp,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.