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 Fiji and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Isaac Hayes to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Camberwell Now,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dave Gahan,
The Music Machine,
Hardrive,
Sugar Minott,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sarah Menescal,
Steve Hackett,
Scion,
Matthew Halsall,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fatback Band,
Main Source,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
John Foxx,
David Axelrod,
Ohio Players,
Monks,
The Dirtbombs,
The Golliwogs,
Swans,
Half Japanese,
Chris & Cosey,
Andrew Hill,
Skaos,
Ludus,
The Invisible,
This Heat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Khruangbin,
The Divine Comedy,
The Pretty Things,
Motorama,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
FM Einheit,
Yazoo,
Anthony Braxton,
Black Pus,
Arthur Verocai,
The Fall,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Alarm Clocks,
K-Klass,
the Sonics,
Eli Mardock,
Vladislav Delay,
Quantec,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Christie,
Roy Ayers,
The Happenings,
Pagans,
Ice-T,
The Names, The Names, The Names, The Names.
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.