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 Israel and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bremen.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe 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 Gichy Dan to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Scion,
the Soft Cell,
The Star Department,
Drexciya,
Pet Shop Boys,
Blake Baxter,
Dead Boys,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sound Behaviour,
Mo-Dettes,
Sparks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mandrill,
Moss Icon,
The Pretty Things,
Deadbeat,
The Tremeloes,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dark Day,
Marshall Jefferson,
Flipper,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Aaron Thompson,
Eric Dolphy,
Rapeman,
Goldenarms,
The Happenings,
The Sonics,
The Trojans,
Radio Birdman,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Angels of Light,
Sonny Sharrock,
Morten Harket,
Mantronix,
The Golliwogs,
One Last Wish,
Maleditus Sound,
Alphaville,
Roy Ayers,
Soulsonic Force,
Nik Kershaw,
Maurizio,
Fela Kuti,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Das Ding,
Joy Division,
Public Enemy,
Davy DMX,
The Flesh Eaters,
Youth Brigade,
Nas,
Supertramp,
Severed Heads,
Fatback Band,
LL Cool J,
Minutemen,
Sun Ra,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.