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 Luxembourg and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Sun Ra to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Wake,
Kenny Larkin,
The Blackbyrds,
Pussy Galore,
Matthew Bourne,
Lucky Dragons,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cybotron,
The Searchers,
The Cramps,
Black Pus,
Man Eating Sloth,
David Axelrod,
Procol Harum,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Swans,
Moss Icon,
The Gap Band,
Minnie Riperton,
Sun Ra,
The Invisible,
Fluxion,
Pharoah Sanders,
Circle Jerks,
This Heat,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Slave,
Archie Shepp,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Doors,
The New Christs,
Oblivians,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Idris Muhammad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Althea and Donna,
Lyres,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mantronix,
Half Japanese,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Urselle,
Brand Nubian,
The Young Rascals,
Kaleidoscope,
Los Fastidios,
Ossler,
Silicon Teens,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Derrick May,
Magazine,
Ultravox,
The Sound,
Surgeon,
Marc Almond,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.