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 Micronesia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 ABC to the funk 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts 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 a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sandy B record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ituana,
Avey Tare,
Eddi Front,
Rites of Spring,
Cecil Taylor,
David McCallum,
Vladislav Delay,
Hashim,
DNA,
The Raincoats,
Television,
Los Fastidios,
ABBA,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Fania All-Stars,
Angry Samoans,
Colin Newman,
Lower 48,
Wings,
June of 44,
Susan Cadogan,
Sexual Harrassment,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Darondo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fugs,
The Red Krayola,
Pulsallama,
Half Japanese,
Subhumans,
The Kinks,
Marmalade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Whodini,
Blancmange,
Byron Stingily,
Sonic Youth,
Crash Course in Science,
Jeff Mills,
Soul Sonic Force,
Severed Heads,
L. Decosne,
OOIOO,
Barbara Tucker,
EPMD,
The Sound,
The Gap Band,
Motorama,
The Blackbyrds,
The Monochrome Set,
Guru Guru,
Ralphi Rosario,
Livin' Joy,
Theoretical Girls,
The Last Poets,
Nick Fraelich,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Inner City, Inner City, Inner City, Inner City.
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.