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 Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Columbus.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the punk 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 Eric B and Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
The Tremeloes,
Skriet,
China Crisis,
Skarface,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sister Nancy,
David Bowie,
Henry Cow,
Dennis Brown,
DNA,
The Pretty Things,
Arcadia,
Dave Gahan,
The Golliwogs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rotary Connection,
Wire,
Television Personalities,
Eden Ahbez,
Public Image Ltd.,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Godley & Creme,
Jacob Miller,
Scratch Acid,
Buzzcocks,
Warren Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cowsills,
Steve Hackett,
This Heat,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Hasil Adkins,
Bobby Byrd,
Matthew Halsall,
X-102,
Fat Boys,
Marine Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Technova,
Darondo,
The Gun Club,
Crispian St. Peters,
Animal Collective,
AZ,
The Barracudas,
Ronan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kurtis Blow,
Grauzone,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Amon Düül,
The Doobie Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lakeside,
The Birthday Party,
The Slackers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.