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 Serbia and from Tehran.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar 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 Patti Smith to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
Sparks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Slick Rick,
Black Moon,
Bobby Sherman,
Pulsallama,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Basic Channel,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Arab on Radar,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Music Machine,
L. Decosne,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dawn Penn,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Metal Thangz,
The Angels of Light,
Deakin,
Aswad,
Alison Limerick,
Mission of Burma,
Reagan Youth,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The United States of America,
The Index,
David McCallum,
Absolute Body Control,
Cal Tjader,
Mr. Review,
Section 25,
Dave Gahan,
Liliput,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Toasters,
Visage,
Stockholm Monsters,
Wire,
Joe Finger,
The Cure,
Outsiders,
The Smiths,
The Associates,
Kurtis Blow,
Sugar Minott,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Dual Sessions,
The Seeds,
Soft Machine,
Matthew Halsall,
Howard Jones,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kaleidoscope,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gil Scott Heron,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Clear Light,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Cramps,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gerry Rafferty,
Siglo XX,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.