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 Bulgaria and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Gap Band to the rap 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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Smiths,
Public Image Ltd.,
Danielle Patucci,
Negative Approach,
Derrick Morgan,
Can,
Suicide,
Scratch Acid,
Minnie Riperton,
Echospace,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Newcleus,
Audionom,
John Cale,
Aloha Tigers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Yellowson,
Sex Pistols,
Pere Ubu,
Eric Copeland,
Rakim,
the Swans,
Hoover,
Ponytail,
X-102,
Alton Ellis,
In Retrospect,
Vainqueur,
The Martian,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tres Demented,
Gastr Del Sol,
Youth Brigade,
Cymande,
Rosa Yemen,
Scrapy,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Quando Quango,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Thompson Twins,
Swans,
Sister Nancy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Aural Exciters,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Moebius,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sixth Finger,
The Beau Brummels,
Goldenarms,
ABC,
The Litter,
Don Cherry,
Bang On A Can,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dennis Brown,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.