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 Luxembourg and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Gil Scott Heron to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
ABC,
Loose Ends,
The Remains,
Isaac Hayes,
Khruangbin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wasted Youth,
Throbbing Gristle,
James White and The Blacks,
LL Cool J,
Con Funk Shun,
Brass Construction,
Spandau Ballet,
Piero Umiliani,
Ronan,
Moss Icon,
Half Japanese,
Harmonia,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Sound,
Pierre Henry,
The Black Dice,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Slits,
Anakelly,
Barbara Tucker,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ultravox,
Public Enemy,
Metal Thangz,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Reagan Youth,
Alphaville,
Cameo,
Glenn Branca,
John Cale,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Intrusion,
The Fortunes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lucky Dragons,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roy Ayers,
48th St. Collective,
The Moody Blues,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Skaos,
The Smiths,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Move,
H. Thieme,
The Star Department,
Make Up,
Dead Boys,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Letta Mbulu,
the Human League,
Duran Duran,
The Cure,
Brothers Johnson,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.