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 Libya and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 Curtis Mayfield to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Dennis Brown,
Marvin Gaye,
James White and The Blacks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nico,
kango's stein massive,
Country Teasers,
Tomorrow,
Severed Heads,
Black Bananas,
Main Source,
UT,
Marine Girls,
Kayak,
Lucky Dragons,
Hasil Adkins,
Supertramp,
Spoonie Gee,
The Cowsills,
Liliput,
The Star Department,
Steve Hackett,
The Remains,
In Retrospect,
Pet Shop Boys,
Marcia Griffiths,
Funkadelic,
Dawn Penn,
Tropical Tobacco,
Wings,
Arthur Verocai,
Newcleus,
Joyce Sims,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Buckinghams,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Agitation Free,
The Mummies,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Raincoats,
Roxy Music,
Joey Negro,
Don Cherry,
Neil Young,
Ludus,
Harmonia,
The Misunderstood,
T. Rex,
Camouflage,
CMW,
the Normal,
Rapeman,
Marc Almond,
Ohio Players,
Anthony Braxton,
La Düsseldorf,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.