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 Argentina and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Move,
Robert Görl,
The Knickerbockers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sonic Youth,
Yellowson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
ABC,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Star Department,
Maurizio,
The Stooges,
Joensuu 1685,
Soft Cell,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Invisible,
The Happenings,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lalann,
Bill Near,
Slave,
Derrick May,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eric B and Rakim,
Eden Ahbez,
Brass Construction,
Sarah Menescal,
Chris Corsano,
Ossler,
Fluxion,
Zero Boys,
Scan 7,
kango's stein massive,
Theoretical Girls,
Michelle Simonal,
The Pretty Things,
Black Sheep,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Goldenarms,
Todd Rundgren,
Dennis Brown,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hardrive,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rakim,
The Alarm Clocks,
Can,
Graham Central Station,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ronan,
The Velvet Underground,
Ultravox,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Masters at Work,
Chris & Cosey,
The Cowsills,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.