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 Honduras and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe 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 Half Japanese to the dance 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Deepchord,
Albert Ayler,
June Days,
Bizarre Inc.,
CMW,
PIL,
The Golliwogs,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
LL Cool J,
Con Funk Shun,
Minor Threat,
The Mighty Diamonds,
X-102,
Bobby Sherman,
New Order,
Aswad,
Susan Cadogan,
Buzzcocks,
Rakim,
Khruangbin,
The Monochrome Set,
Erykah Badu,
Guru Guru,
Ludus,
Negative Approach,
Rotary Connection,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sam Rivers,
Technova,
The Invisible,
Lucky Dragons,
Q65,
Neil Young,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Litter,
The Leaves,
Flipper,
The Knickerbockers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Warsaw,
John Lydon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kool Moe Dee,
Erasure,
Desert Stars,
10cc,
Thee Headcoats,
Scrapy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bronski Beat,
Ponytail,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Doors,
Monks,
Little Man,
Animal Collective,
The Last Poets,
Siglo XX,
Franke,
Al Stewart,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.