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 Sweden and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Crime to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gang Starr,
Iggy Pop,
Barclay James Harvest,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Slits,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sugar Minott,
Slave,
Moby Grape,
Pole,
Sällskapet,
June of 44,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Donny Hathaway,
Isaac Hayes,
Funkadelic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Yellowson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
David Axelrod,
Agitation Free,
The United States of America,
Mary Jane Girls,
Outsiders,
The Shadows of Knight,
Second Layer,
Nico,
Panda Bear,
UT,
Wolf Eyes,
The Leaves,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Animal Collective,
Blossom Toes,
Hot Snakes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Black Bananas,
Sun City Girls,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bill Wells,
The Gories,
Joey Negro,
The Young Rascals,
Kurtis Blow,
E-Dancer,
Lebanon Hanover,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Alison Limerick,
Lakeside,
Television,
The Birthday Party,
Radio Birdman,
ABBA,
Scratch Acid,
Blancmange,
the Fania All-Stars,
Metal Thangz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Qualms,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.