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 Moldova and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin 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 Delon & Dalcan to the techno 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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Howard Jones 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
A Certain Ratio,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sun Ra,
Moss Icon,
Josef K,
The Fortunes,
Nico,
JFA,
Delta 5,
Morten Harket,
Crash Course in Science,
Ituana,
Alice Coltrane,
Ponytail,
Pole,
cv313,
Sexual Harrassment,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Johnny Clarke,
Warren Ellis,
Byron Stingily,
Minny Pops,
Trumans Water,
Wire,
PIL,
Sonny Sharrock,
Half Japanese,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Easy Going,
Porter Ricks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
a-ha,
Bang On A Can,
The Techniques,
Jeru the Damaja,
Arthur Verocai,
Mr. Review,
Danielle Patucci,
Ludus,
Flash Fearless,
Skriet,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Sound,
New York Dolls,
Black Flag,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Leonard Cohen,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Flamin' Groovies,
Faust,
Pussy Galore,
Masters at Work,
The Wake,
Echospace,
Brothers Johnson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Avey Tare,
F. McDonald,
The Remains,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.