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 Australia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sun City Girls to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Eating Sloth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
The J.B.'s,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hasil Adkins,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mad Mike,
Ice-T,
Junior Murvin,
La Düsseldorf,
Todd Rundgren,
Iggy Pop,
Tears for Fears,
One Last Wish,
Von Mondo,
Supertramp,
Eric Dolphy,
DJ Style,
Rakim,
Ossler,
The Dirtbombs,
Sight & Sound,
Interpol,
The Slits,
A Certain Ratio,
Freddie Wadling,
The Music Machine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sällskapet,
Yazoo,
The Golliwogs,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Altered Images,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Franke,
Mary Jane Girls,
Intrusion,
The Sisters of Mercy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Vladislav Delay,
Chris Corsano,
Crime,
Sun City Girls,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Public Image Ltd.,
Deadbeat,
Essential Logic,
Kerrie Biddell,
Young Marble Giants,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Soul II Soul,
Suicide,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Charles Mingus,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.