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 Brazil and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Ice-T to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Soft Cell,
The Invisible,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Stooges,
Jesper Dahlback,
Skaos,
Big Daddy Kane,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Radiohead,
Thompson Twins,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Monolake,
The New Christs,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Circle Jerks,
Shuggie Otis,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Main Source,
June Days,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
cv313,
Matthew Bourne,
Whodini,
Robert Wyatt,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Swans,
One Last Wish,
Second Layer,
X-102,
The Names,
Bobby Hutcherson,
New Order,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dennis Brown,
Qualms,
Traffic Nightmare,
Von Mondo,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Eden Ahbez,
Skriet,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Shadows of Knight,
Section 25,
AZ,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Searchers,
Flash Fearless,
Excepter,
Morten Harket,
Idris Muhammad,
The Star Department,
Todd Rundgren,
The Zeros,
Freddie Wadling,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.