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 Argentina and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ 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 X-Ray Spex to the electroclash 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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fatback Band,
Sonic Youth,
the Human League,
Eric Copeland,
Jerry's Kids,
Sun Ra,
Television Personalities,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rakim,
Suburban Knight,
Camberwell Now,
June Days,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Erasure,
Whodini,
Kenny Larkin,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Dave Clark Five,
Idris Muhammad,
the Slits,
Malaria!,
Pharoah Sanders,
Moby Grape,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sällskapet,
Hoover,
Harry Pussy,
Tres Demented,
DJ Sneak,
Babytalk,
Cybotron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Trojans,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Soft Cell,
The Stooges,
Joe Finger,
Agent Orange,
The Count Five,
The Knickerbockers,
Little Man,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Chris Corsano,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ituana,
Technova,
Jeff Mills,
Dual Sessions,
Prince Buster,
Vladislav Delay,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Dawn Penn,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Smiths,
Fear,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Barbara Tucker,
Marc Almond,
Fluxion,
Sound Behaviour,
Eli Mardock,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.