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 Angola and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 organ 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 The Standells to the rock 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Bootsy Collins,
The Remains,
Negative Approach,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gang Starr,
Second Layer,
B.T. Express,
The United States of America,
Don Cherry,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lucky Dragons,
Bizarre Inc.,
Radiohead,
Erasure,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marc Almond,
Skarface,
Mission of Burma,
Sister Nancy,
Roy Ayers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
X-101,
Shoche,
FM Einheit,
Roxy Music,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Tropical Tobacco,
Archie Shepp,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
U.S. Maple,
Nas,
Pantytec,
the Fania All-Stars,
Curtis Mayfield,
Massinfluence,
Scientists,
Bang On A Can,
The Toasters,
The Dead C,
Hoover,
Glambeats Corp.,
LL Cool J,
Lebanon Hanover,
Smog,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ohio Players,
Roxette,
Henry Cow,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Gories,
Rekid,
X-102,
Von Mondo,
Section 25,
Gang Green,
Stereo Dub,
The Smoke,
The Electric Prunes,
Tears for Fears,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.