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 Poland and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tokyo.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lakeside to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Angry Samoans,
Grandmaster Flash,
DJ Style,
The Moleskins,
Iggy Pop,
Anthony Braxton,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Offenders,
Lower 48,
June of 44,
The Sound,
Ultravox,
H. Thieme,
Barbara Tucker,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nico,
the Slits,
Marc Almond,
The Beau Brummels,
Moss Icon,
Warsaw,
Sandy B,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ultimate Spinach,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Anakelly,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Monks,
Interpol,
Fat Boys,
Dave Gahan,
The Selecter,
Sam Rivers,
Tomorrow,
Public Image Ltd.,
Liliput,
EPMD,
Khruangbin,
Scion,
Animal Collective,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Hardrive,
CMW,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gang Starr,
Gerry Rafferty,
Flash Fearless,
Newcleus,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Wake,
Sex Pistols,
Das Ding,
Panda Bear,
Cameo,
The New Christs,
Jeru the Damaja,
Neu!,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Heaven 17,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.