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 Solomon Islands and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the crunk 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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sexual Harrassment record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
The Knickerbockers,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Motions,
Hoover,
kango's stein massive,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bobby Womack,
China Crisis,
Main Source,
the Germs,
Model 500,
Procol Harum,
Peter & Gordon,
Suburban Knight,
Lightning Bolt,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Aaron Thompson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Residents,
Soulsonic Force,
Stetsasonic,
Boz Scaggs,
The Toasters,
The Smiths,
Funky Four + One,
These Immortal Souls,
Roger Hodgson,
Amon Düül,
Smog,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jawbox,
Visage,
Chris Corsano,
MC5,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Junior Murvin,
Oblivians,
Radiohead,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Index,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Martian,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Rites of Spring,
Crash Course in Science,
Boredoms,
Kayak,
Shuggie Otis,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Litter,
The Fortunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Music Machine,
Max Romeo,
Iggy Pop,
ABC,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jeff Mills,
The Sonics,
Young Marble Giants,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.