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 Palau and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Kas Product to the dance 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 Tears for Fears. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Danielle Patucci record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Sun Ra,
Black Flag,
Reuben Wilson,
Byron Stingily,
Isaac Hayes,
The Blackbyrds,
Rosa Yemen,
Maurizio,
Marvin Gaye,
Scott Walker,
Henry Cow,
Heaven 17,
Crash Course in Science,
The Detroit Cobras,
Basic Channel,
Brass Construction,
John Foxx,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Loose Ends,
Organ,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jeff Lynne,
Model 500,
The Star Department,
Anthony Braxton,
Altered Images,
Shoche,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Associates,
Lightning Bolt,
Parry Music,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Second Layer,
The Busters,
The Saints,
Section 25,
Royal Trux,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Moebius,
Neil Young,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bauhaus,
Archie Shepp,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Letta Mbulu,
Quando Quango,
Tommy Roe,
Johnny Clarke,
Ice-T,
Skriet,
Donald Byrd,
Throbbing Gristle,
Kurtis Blow,
Main Source,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.