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 Djibouti and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Tears for Fears to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
The Slits,
Average White Band,
The Remains,
Funky Four + One,
Pere Ubu,
Easy Going,
Junior Murvin,
Rosa Yemen,
Nik Kershaw,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Connie Case,
Q and Not U,
Mark Hollis,
8 Eyed Spy,
Patti Smith,
Saccharine Trust,
Kaleidoscope,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Cybotron,
Moss Icon,
Nirvana,
Marcia Griffiths,
Maurizio,
The Fugs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Barracudas,
Television Personalities,
Sexual Harrassment,
Franke,
Anakelly,
Livin' Joy,
Roy Ayers,
One Last Wish,
Pulsallama,
Excepter,
Silicon Teens,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rakim,
Hasil Adkins,
the Sonics,
Rhythm & Sound,
Isaac Hayes,
Darondo,
Michelle Simonal,
The Evens,
Lucky Dragons,
The Pretty Things,
Masters at Work,
Camberwell Now,
Ten City,
The Misunderstood,
B.T. Express,
Lyres,
R.M.O.,
Sister Nancy,
Skriet,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.