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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Pagans to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Slave,
The Pretty Things,
Easy Going,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lou Reed,
Camouflage,
The Count Five,
Iggy Pop,
Gang Green,
Lindisfarne,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Liliput,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
JFA,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jacob Miller,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sonny Sharrock,
Stetsasonic,
The Last Poets,
Bobby Sherman,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Donald Byrd,
Motorama,
The Red Krayola,
Brand Nubian,
Bizarre Inc.,
The New Christs,
The Zeros,
Chris Corsano,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Barbara Tucker,
Barclay James Harvest,
Glenn Branca,
Television Personalities,
Sonic Youth,
FM Einheit,
10cc,
Scan 7,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mantronix,
Erykah Badu,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Icehouse,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Fall,
Robert Wyatt,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Roxy Music,
Gabor Szabo,
Saccharine Trust,
R.M.O.,
Masters at Work,
The Alarm Clocks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Moleskins,
The Sound,
New York Dolls,
The Golliwogs,
Joensuu 1685,
The Victims,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.