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 Lesotho and from Spokane.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Duran Duran to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mission of Burma. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Bourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions 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?
Gang of Four,
Crime,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Count Five,
Rufus Thomas,
Stereo Dub,
Dave Gahan,
Camouflage,
Young Marble Giants,
Kaleidoscope,
Steve Hackett,
Johnny Osbourne,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Human League,
New Order,
Brothers Johnson,
Talk Talk,
Goldenarms,
The Techniques,
Rotary Connection,
Robert Wyatt,
Echospace,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lebanon Hanover,
Maleditus Sound,
Yaz,
Idris Muhammad,
Guru Guru,
Funky Four + One,
The Star Department,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultra Naté,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pantaleimon,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Moon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Quando Quango,
Soft Machine,
K-Klass,
Spoonie Gee,
Josef K,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Gories,
Maurizio,
The Cramps,
Tim Buckley,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Aural Exciters,
The Velvet Underground,
Babytalk,
Brand Nubian,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Cecil Taylor,
Zero Boys,
La Düsseldorf,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.