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 Guinea and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Delon & Dalcan to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer 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 sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The J.B.'s,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Skaos,
John Foxx,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jacques Brel,
Deadbeat,
Joey Negro,
Altered Images,
UT,
Cal Tjader,
Aswad,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kenny Larkin,
Simply Red,
Bob Dylan,
Massinfluence,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Flipper,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Slackers,
Intrusion,
Darondo,
The Pop Group,
Traffic Nightmare,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Five Americans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Alice Coltrane,
Smog,
Lindisfarne,
Thompson Twins,
The Star Department,
Fugazi,
Easy Going,
Cecil Taylor,
Make Up,
Scott Walker,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Electric Prunes,
Radiohead,
Bush Tetras,
Dark Day,
Essential Logic,
Deepchord,
David McCallum,
Mary Jane Girls,
Babytalk,
Bad Manners,
New Age Steppers,
D'Angelo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Scion,
Reagan Youth,
Archie Shepp,
Dead Boys,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.