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 Ecuador and from London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Babytalk 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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All The Offenders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Albert Ayler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Gichy Dan,
The Fall,
Todd Terry,
The Divine Comedy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eric Copeland,
Shuggie Otis,
T. Rex,
Dave Gahan,
Essential Logic,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Scratch Acid,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Sonics,
Skriet,
U.S. Maple,
The Happenings,
Eric Dolphy,
Stockholm Monsters,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Letta Mbulu,
Kerri Chandler,
Blake Baxter,
Fear,
Can,
Urselle,
Cymande,
The Gap Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Coltrane,
Television Personalities,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
EPMD,
John Holt,
The Real Kids,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Cale,
The Sound,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Womack,
Delta 5,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Monochrome Set,
Procol Harum,
Sexual Harrassment,
Little Man,
Jacob Miller,
Warren Ellis,
The Moleskins,
Marvin Gaye,
The Slackers,
Motorama,
Banda Bassotti,
Aloha Tigers,
Magma,
Basic Channel,
Zero Boys,
The Busters,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.