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 Libya and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Marmalade to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All K-Klass tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Man Eating Sloth,
Howard Jones,
Echospace,
Organ,
CMW,
Gil Scott Heron,
Agitation Free,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Junior Murvin,
Roxette,
Barbara Tucker,
The Red Krayola,
Brick,
Lindisfarne,
Dead Boys,
the Bar-Kays,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Terrestrial Tones,
Archie Shepp,
Sixth Finger,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Johnny Osbourne,
Black Pus,
Anthony Braxton,
Scott Walker,
Amon Düül II,
Dark Day,
Cybotron,
Bronski Beat,
Scientists,
Jeru the Damaja,
Graham Central Station,
Max Romeo,
The Pretty Things,
Thompson Twins,
The Raincoats,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Harpers Bizarre,
Curtis Mayfield,
Brothers Johnson,
Vainqueur,
Nas,
Delta 5,
Whodini,
Idris Muhammad,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Avey Tare,
Flash Fearless,
Cymande,
Scan 7,
Michelle Simonal,
Das Ding,
Technova,
Toni Rubio,
Young Marble Giants,
Brass Construction,
Khruangbin,
Monolake,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.