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 Nigeria and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Nico to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
The Gap Band,
The Toasters,
The Skatalites,
Jacob Miller,
Shoche,
The Fuzztones,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bluetip,
The Slackers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rhythm & Sound,
Wally Richardson,
The Doors,
DNA,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Todd Terry,
the Germs,
Average White Band,
Second Layer,
Nation of Ulysses,
Danielle Patucci,
Lucky Dragons,
the Soft Cell,
Eurythmics,
Yaz,
Ralphi Rosario,
A Certain Ratio,
Pylon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rosa Yemen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crime,
Technova,
Tres Demented,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rotary Connection,
Groovy Waters,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nils Olav,
Subhumans,
Wings,
The J.B.'s,
The Fortunes,
Agitation Free,
10cc,
Clear Light,
Gong,
The Mummies,
Mission of Burma,
Bootsy Collins,
Television,
Skarface,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fluxion,
The Mojo Men,
Arthur Verocai,
T. Rex,
Donald Byrd,
Chris Corsano,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.