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 Venezuela and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Seoul.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Absolute Body Control 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobbi Humphrey,
Cymande,
Sex Pistols,
Piero Umiliani,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Five Americans,
Johnny Osbourne,
Camouflage,
Electric Prunes,
The Dirtbombs,
Laurel Aitken,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
Judy Mowatt,
The Durutti Column,
Jacob Miller,
Crooked Eye,
Crime,
KRS-One,
The Birthday Party,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Velvet Underground,
Joe Finger,
Minnie Riperton,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marvin Gaye,
Pulsallama,
Reuben Wilson,
The Kinks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Blossom Toes,
Aswad,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gang Gang Dance,
Davy DMX,
Aloha Tigers,
Drexciya,
Swell Maps,
Gang of Four,
Loose Ends,
Soft Machine,
Quando Quango,
Ponytail,
Au Pairs,
the Normal,
Todd Terry,
cv313,
Skaos,
Bauhaus,
Neu!,
Flamin' Groovies,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Janne Schatter,
Ultravox,
Stereo Dub,
Metal Thangz,
The Beau Brummels,
Panda Bear,
Radiohead,
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.