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 Barbados and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Yazoo to the rap 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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Jeru the Damaja,
La Düsseldorf,
The Blues Magoos,
Lyres,
Fela Kuti,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Can,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Motions,
Bluetip,
Television Personalities,
Eve St. Jones,
Warsaw,
Kas Product,
The Gap Band,
Icehouse,
Deadbeat,
Janne Schatter,
The Skatalites,
Sound Behaviour,
Harmonia,
Jacob Miller,
Skriet,
Minnie Riperton,
Minor Threat,
Harpers Bizarre,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Unrelated Segments,
Siglo XX,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Germs,
The Sonics,
The Star Department,
Althea and Donna,
Kaleidoscope,
Juan Atkins,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Dual Sessions,
Guru Guru,
Average White Band,
Jeff Mills,
Byron Stingily,
David Bowie,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kayak,
The Seeds,
Moebius,
D'Angelo,
Minutemen,
The Modern Lovers,
Anakelly,
Nas,
The Residents,
ABC,
Television,
Cal Tjader,
Patti Smith,
X-101,
The Black Dice,
Big Daddy Kane,
Little Man,
Half Japanese,
Malaria!,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.