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 Nigeria and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Roger Hodgson,
Magma,
Steve Hackett,
Eric Copeland,
Television,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Agent Orange,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lakeside,
New York Dolls,
The Pretty Things,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Hardrive,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bluetip,
Crispian St. Peters,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Marmalade,
Bootsy Collins,
John Cale,
Goldenarms,
The Electric Prunes,
Ronnie Foster,
Monolake,
Vainqueur,
Flash Fearless,
Kerrie Biddell,
Negative Approach,
Warsaw,
Country Joe & The Fish,
This Heat,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yusef Lateef,
Wasted Youth,
Mark Hollis,
MC5,
The Mummies,
Hot Snakes,
Basic Channel,
Public Enemy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jesper Dahlback,
Harry Pussy,
Maleditus Sound,
Skriet,
Nico,
Althea and Donna,
Severed Heads,
Blossom Toes,
Don Cherry,
Second Layer,
LL Cool J,
Moebius,
Gabor Szabo,
Erykah Badu,
Traffic Nightmare,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.