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 Gabon and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 guitar 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 Mission of Burma to the electroclash 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Swell Maps,
Dennis Brown,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The American Breed,
The Cowsills,
Yaz,
Joy Division,
Soft Cell,
Man Parrish,
Kerri Chandler,
Yellowson,
Inner City,
Avey Tare,
The Seeds,
The Index,
The Red Krayola,
Robert Görl,
Erykah Badu,
Guru Guru,
Pussy Galore,
Cymande,
Morten Harket,
The Kinks,
The Sound,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
MC5,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Doobie Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
D'Angelo,
Tears for Fears,
Arab on Radar,
Monks,
Colin Newman,
Absolute Body Control,
Sex Pistols,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Crime,
Wally Richardson,
Rakim,
Blancmange,
Kenny Larkin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Gap Band,
Ronnie Foster,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Groovy Waters,
The Divine Comedy,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Cameo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Urselle,
Tom Boy,
Zapp,
The Cramps,
New Order,
The Move,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.