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 Jordan and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Don Cherry to the dance 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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Absolute Body Control,
Soft Machine,
the Sonics,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Model 500,
Visage,
Sun Ra,
The J.B.'s,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Howard Jones,
Spoonie Gee,
Boz Scaggs,
Unwound,
Frankie Knuckles,
Darondo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cymande,
Neil Young,
Carl Craig,
Sugar Minott,
Rites of Spring,
The Gladiators,
Todd Terry,
Outsiders,
Roy Ayers,
Wally Richardson,
The Busters,
Marshall Jefferson,
The American Breed,
Sex Pistols,
Flamin' Groovies,
DJ Style,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lindisfarne,
Ten City,
Curtis Mayfield,
Piero Umiliani,
The Red Krayola,
Eli Mardock,
The Stooges,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Moody Blues,
Funkadelic,
Cecil Taylor,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ultravox,
Amon Düül,
Guru Guru,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Chrome,
Deadbeat,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Derrick May,
Maurizio,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Quantec,
Todd Rundgren,
The Slackers,
Whodini,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Simply Red,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.