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 Monaco and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Tomorrow to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Supertramp,
Thompson Twins,
Archie Shepp,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Seeds,
Colin Newman,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Searchers,
John Holt,
Dorothy Ashby,
Brand Nubian,
ABC,
The Litter,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Porter Ricks,
Todd Rundgren,
The Grass Roots,
The Fugs,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Alison Limerick,
June of 44,
The J.B.'s,
Girls At Our Best!,
Underground Resistance,
Lyres,
K-Klass,
Outsiders,
Grey Daturas,
The Happenings,
Tropical Tobacco,
Chris Corsano,
Stereo Dub,
Minny Pops,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Wire,
CMW,
Brass Construction,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lucky Dragons,
Tommy Roe,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Black Moon,
Liliput,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Iggy Pop,
Marine Girls,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sun City Girls,
Public Enemy,
Mad Mike,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Boogie Down Productions,
In Retrospect,
Ornette Coleman,
Avey Tare,
Mission of Burma,
DNA,
L. Decosne,
Make Up,
Nas,
Carl Craig,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.