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 El Salvador and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manila.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ten City to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slick Rick,
Eddi Front,
Jerry's Kids,
Ohio Players,
Outsiders,
The Human League,
Alice Coltrane,
Morten Harket,
Soft Machine,
Anakelly,
Tomorrow,
Silicon Teens,
Pylon,
Y Pants,
Stereo Dub,
Fort Wilson Riot,
cv313,
D'Angelo,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Maleditus Sound,
The Leaves,
Sex Pistols,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Idris Muhammad,
Yusef Lateef,
Heaven 17,
Leonard Cohen,
Scan 7,
The Busters,
Magma,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pagans,
Eric Dolphy,
Groovy Waters,
kango's stein massive,
ABBA,
Nas,
Pole,
Michelle Simonal,
Con Funk Shun,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
June of 44,
Scrapy,
Vladislav Delay,
The Music Machine,
Zapp,
Black Bananas,
Blancmange,
Quando Quango,
Clear Light,
Siglo XX,
Gerry Rafferty,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sun Ra,
The Fuzztones,
Lalann,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Seeds,
Ronan,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.