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 Philippines and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 48th St. Collective 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dual Sessions,
Barrington Levy,
Erykah Badu,
Sun City Girls,
Barclay James Harvest,
Hoover,
The Young Rascals,
Scott Walker,
Swans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Organ,
Lebanon Hanover,
Black Moon,
DJ Sneak,
Carl Craig,
Derrick May,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Smog,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cluster,
Fluxion,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Alphaville,
Joe Finger,
Excepter,
Juan Atkins,
The Move,
Livin' Joy,
Joy Division,
Q65,
R.M.O.,
Harmonia,
the Normal,
Visage,
Alison Limerick,
Rites of Spring,
U.S. Maple,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Mojo Men,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Siglo XX,
The Count Five,
JFA,
Bobby Sherman,
June Days,
The Monks,
Graham Central Station,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Busters,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pulsallama,
David Bowie,
Quantec,
Gichy Dan,
Prince Buster,
Lalann,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Scratch Acid,
Echospace,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.