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 Ecuador and from Woodstock.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manila.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 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 Jandek to the grime 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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Icehouse,
LL Cool J,
Swans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Last Poets,
Roy Ayers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Beau Brummels,
PIL,
MDC,
Wasted Youth,
X-102,
Cheater Slicks,
Bootsy Collins,
Essential Logic,
The Monochrome Set,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ornette Coleman,
Jacob Miller,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Hardrive,
Deakin,
The J.B.'s,
Animal Collective,
Terrestrial Tones,
Roxy Music,
Jimmy McGriff,
Deadbeat,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Moss Icon,
Simply Red,
Bobby Sherman,
The Barracudas,
Underground Resistance,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sällskapet,
Jacques Brel,
The Leaves,
Mad Mike,
Grandmaster Flash,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Blackbyrds,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boz Scaggs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
ABBA,
Pussy Galore,
Severed Heads,
Traffic Nightmare,
Heaven 17,
T.S.O.L.,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pylon,
Theoretical Girls,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.