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 Denmark and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gang of Four to the rock 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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Lindisfarne,
Loose Ends,
Procol Harum,
Ituana,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sun City Girls,
Mantronix,
LL Cool J,
Lucky Dragons,
Anakelly,
Yaz,
The Star Department,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Sonics,
Lyres,
Minnie Riperton,
the Human League,
Fluxion,
Funky Four + One,
The Gories,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Cowsills,
Infiniti,
Young Marble Giants,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Stetsasonic,
Marmalade,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Boz Scaggs,
Television,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Trojans,
Black Moon,
Maleditus Sound,
Scientists,
Adolescents,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Massinfluence,
KRS-One,
Q65,
June Days,
The Buckinghams,
Patti Smith,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Reuben Wilson,
Cluster,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dave Gahan,
Zapp,
Hashim,
Sight & Sound,
Hasil Adkins,
Warren Ellis,
Mars,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
X-101,
Suburban Knight,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.