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 Korea North and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eden Ahbez to the grime 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 The Sisters of Mercy. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Bronski Beat,
Mo-Dettes,
Brick,
Camouflage,
Moebius,
The Shadows of Knight,
Television,
The Monochrome Set,
Electric Prunes,
Tommy Roe,
Japan,
Eurythmics,
Yusef Lateef,
The Slits,
The Doors,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Fuzztones,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Beau Brummels,
Bauhaus,
Marcia Griffiths,
Severed Heads,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Patti Smith,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Basic Channel,
Morten Harket,
Magazine,
Eric B and Rakim,
F. McDonald,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
James White and The Blacks,
Peter & Gordon,
Agitation Free,
Gil Scott Heron,
Crispy Ambulance,
Zero Boys,
Shoche,
Terry Callier,
Malaria!,
The Pop Group,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sound Behaviour,
Darondo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lou Reed,
Ituana,
Big Daddy Kane,
Alison Limerick,
Tubeway Army,
Joensuu 1685,
Swans,
The Vogues,
Slave,
Technova,
Reagan Youth,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.