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 Senegal and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultravox,
Scan 7,
Basic Channel,
Gang of Four,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Swell Maps,
The Dead C,
Aswad,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Mary Jane Girls,
Leonard Cohen,
Deadbeat,
Boogie Down Productions,
June Days,
Panda Bear,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Davy DMX,
Althea and Donna,
The Birthday Party,
Robert Wyatt,
Kerri Chandler,
Zero Boys,
Anthony Braxton,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
FM Einheit,
Carl Craig,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Monochrome Set,
The Black Dice,
Marmalade,
David Axelrod,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tropical Tobacco,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Moody Blues,
Monolake,
Sparks,
Idris Muhammad,
The Gun Club,
The Monks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Guru Guru,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Count Five,
Motorama,
Thompson Twins,
Eric Dolphy,
Charles Mingus,
In Retrospect,
Shuggie Otis,
KRS-One,
Roxette,
Royal Trux,
Subhumans,
Nico,
Ituana,
The Victims,
Aloha Tigers,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dennis Brown,
Lower 48,
The Real Kids,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.