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 Spain and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 Stockholm and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 oboe 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 Lebanon Hanover to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The United States of America record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
Derrick Morgan,
Ponytail,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Slits,
Gastr Del Sol,
Junior Murvin,
The Flesh Eaters,
FM Einheit,
Tres Demented,
The Dave Clark Five,
Reagan Youth,
Zero Boys,
The Grass Roots,
Maurizio,
The Litter,
Delta 5,
Cabaret Voltaire,
JFA,
the Sonics,
The Moody Blues,
Rosa Yemen,
The Dirtbombs,
The Knickerbockers,
Wasted Youth,
Procol Harum,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Goldenarms,
Unwound,
Sun City Girls,
Dennis Brown,
Roxette,
Barrington Levy,
Dawn Penn,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Leonard Cohen,
Bizarre Inc.,
Negative Approach,
Wally Richardson,
Fluxion,
Main Source,
DJ Sneak,
Minutemen,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cheater Slicks,
Average White Band,
Siglo XX,
The Young Rascals,
Blancmange,
Wings,
Marcia Griffiths,
Neil Young,
Minor Threat,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Cowsills,
World's Most,
Mary Jane Girls,
Blake Baxter,
Aural Exciters,
Bronski Beat,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock.
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.