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 Greece and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Khruangbin,
The United States of America,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ituana,
Pulsallama,
The Pretty Things,
The Motions,
Television Personalities,
Bill Near,
Alison Limerick,
Susan Cadogan,
John Lydon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Qualms,
Dave Gahan,
Intrusion,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultravox,
Absolute Body Control,
Fluxion,
Ten City,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Organ,
Cal Tjader,
Japan,
Ronan,
Easy Going,
The Moleskins,
Suicide,
The Slackers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Erasure,
Judy Mowatt,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Amon Düül,
Juan Atkins,
Rakim,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Neu!,
The Fugs,
Masters at Work,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ken Boothe,
Deepchord,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Electric Prunes,
Eurythmics,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Godley & Creme,
Alice Coltrane,
Yusef Lateef,
The Monks,
Junior Murvin,
Liliput,
Carl Craig,
Harry Pussy,
Minor Threat,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.