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 Singapore and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Toronto.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Cal Tjader to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roy Ayers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Soft Cell,
Pagans,
The Five Americans,
Stereo Dub,
Johnny Clarke,
Charles Mingus,
Carl Craig,
Fat Boys,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Young Marble Giants,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Robert Görl,
The Last Poets,
48th St. Collective,
Bill Wells,
Minny Pops,
Technova,
E-Dancer,
Nirvana,
Television,
Echospace,
Buzzcocks,
The Victims,
Spoonie Gee,
Eurythmics,
Lou Christie,
Jeff Mills,
Tom Boy,
Index,
The Offenders,
Cecil Taylor,
Ossler,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bluetip,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sound,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marmalade,
Neu!,
Severed Heads,
Jerry's Kids,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mary Jane Girls,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Knickerbockers,
Avey Tare,
Scientists,
Sixth Finger,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Parry Music,
Erykah Badu,
Oneida,
The Names,
Minutemen,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.