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 Armenia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Copenhagen and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Visage to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 the Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
MDC,
UT,
Erasure,
Dorothy Ashby,
Yusef Lateef,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Basic Channel,
David Axelrod,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jesper Dahlback,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eurythmics,
Mission of Burma,
Symarip,
Kerri Chandler,
Crash Course in Science,
Surgeon,
Shoche,
Smog,
Eric Copeland,
The Offenders,
Lower 48,
Ronan,
Alison Limerick,
Fad Gadget,
Brand Nubian,
Absolute Body Control,
The Shadows of Knight,
Davy DMX,
Slick Rick,
Popol Vuh,
Sandy B,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Marcia Griffiths,
Agent Orange,
Neil Young,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Human League,
T. Rex,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bootsy Collins,
Morten Harket,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Fuzztones,
Gichy Dan,
The Angels of Light,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Moody Blues,
the Soft Cell,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Happenings,
Skriet,
The Five Americans,
Sparks,
Eddi Front,
Nick Fraelich,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.