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 Taiwan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Manila.
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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Stetsasonic to the crunk 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Symarip,
Siglo XX,
Josef K,
Freddie Wadling,
The Monochrome Set,
Peter and Kerry,
The Stooges,
Throbbing Gristle,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fluxion,
The Motions,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Dave Clark Five,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Byrd,
Pylon,
Hot Snakes,
Make Up,
Nas,
Andrew Hill,
Mission of Burma,
The Detroit Cobras,
Smog,
Scott Walker,
Slick Rick,
cv313,
Anthony Braxton,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pantytec,
Essential Logic,
OOIOO,
Angry Samoans,
Little Man,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
AZ,
Godley & Creme,
Sister Nancy,
Lee Hazlewood,
Traffic Nightmare,
Whodini,
Bobby Sherman,
Gong,
Joey Negro,
Magazine,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gil Scott Heron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Association,
Erykah Badu,
Sugar Minott,
T.S.O.L.,
Main Source,
Von Mondo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eve St. Jones,
Cecil Taylor,
The Angels of Light,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.