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 Uganda and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Oblivians to the techno 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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Moleskins,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aural Exciters,
Lalann,
Clear Light,
Ronan,
Barrington Levy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
AZ,
Vainqueur,
La Düsseldorf,
Ultra Naté,
The Index,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Skarface,
Godley & Creme,
Grey Daturas,
The Red Krayola,
Make Up,
Young Marble Giants,
Drexciya,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The New Christs,
Agitation Free,
Michelle Simonal,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rosa Yemen,
The Modern Lovers,
The Standells,
The Walker Brothers,
Quadrant,
Motorama,
The Fall,
Bronski Beat,
T.S.O.L.,
Gerry Rafferty,
the Bar-Kays,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Moon,
Black Bananas,
The Vogues,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rapeman,
The Flesh Eaters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tears for Fears,
Brand Nubian,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Junior Murvin,
Reagan Youth,
Stiv Bators,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Gories,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.