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 Thailand and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The New Christs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sugar Minott,
Lebanon Hanover,
Harry Pussy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
MC5,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Barbara Tucker,
Neil Young,
Hoover,
The Cramps,
The Dave Clark Five,
Donald Byrd,
the Fania All-Stars,
Johnny Clarke,
Morten Harket,
Jeff Lynne,
Moss Icon,
Gerry Rafferty,
Siglo XX,
Moby Grape,
Wasted Youth,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Cowsills,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bill Near,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soulsonic Force,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang Gang Dance,
Josef K,
Flash Fearless,
Kayak,
Joyce Sims,
Rites of Spring,
New Order,
Babytalk,
Television Personalities,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Soft Machine,
Gichy Dan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Trojans,
Grandmaster Flash,
Aswad,
Ronan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Swell Maps,
The Victims,
Section 25,
Skaos,
Robert Hood,
Supertramp,
Anthony Braxton,
Howard Jones,
The Mojo Men,
Rod Modell,
Interpol,
Deadbeat,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.