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 Palau and from Woodstock.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 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 Icehouse to the funk 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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Tears for Fears tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
8 Eyed Spy,
E-Dancer,
Eric B and Rakim,
the Human League,
Todd Rundgren,
Mary Jane Girls,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Techniques,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Vainqueur,
La Düsseldorf,
Procol Harum,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Idris Muhammad,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bobby Byrd,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rekid,
Susan Cadogan,
The Slackers,
Wings,
Maurizio,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Alice Coltrane,
The Seeds,
Scan 7,
Half Japanese,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bill Near,
Peter and Kerry,
Trumans Water,
Gang Starr,
AZ,
Lou Reed,
the Slits,
The Dead C,
Roy Ayers,
Sex Pistols,
The Blackbyrds,
The Stooges,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Neon Judgement,
Youth Brigade,
Easy Going,
John Lydon,
Ronnie Foster,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
T. Rex,
The Pretty Things,
Colin Newman,
CMW,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Beau Brummels,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Blancmange,
Underground Resistance,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Arab on Radar,
Gastr Del Sol,
ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC.
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.