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 Romania and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Human League to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angry Samoans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fugazi,
Smog,
Matthew Halsall,
Visage,
Barbara Tucker,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wasted Youth,
Crash Course in Science,
Thompson Twins,
Sun Ra,
The Kinks,
Brothers Johnson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Little Man,
Technova,
The Monochrome Set,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Normal,
The Pop Group,
Model 500,
Fela Kuti,
The Slits,
China Crisis,
Lungfish,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kevin Saunderson,
DNA,
Siglo XX,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Boredoms,
The Moody Blues,
Barrington Levy,
Stetsasonic,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jacob Miller,
The Last Poets,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
kango's stein massive,
Deepchord,
Ultra Naté,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Barry Ungar,
John Foxx,
Grandmaster Flash,
FM Einheit,
Reuben Wilson,
Funky Four + One,
Malaria!,
Girls At Our Best!,
Au Pairs,
Joey Negro,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
D'Angelo,
The Motions,
Maleditus Sound,
Toni Rubio,
Sonic Youth,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. 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.