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 Ecuador and from Stockholm.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Brass Construction to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Flock of Seagulls,
Circle Jerks,
Yaz,
Half Japanese,
The Seeds,
Judy Mowatt,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Barrington Levy,
Lower 48,
Pole,
The Move,
Morten Harket,
Avey Tare,
Public Image Ltd.,
New Order,
Amon Düül II,
X-102,
Symarip,
Japan,
Grandmaster Flash,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bush Tetras,
Bobby Sherman,
The Standells,
Minutemen,
Ituana,
Michelle Simonal,
John Cale,
Skriet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Evens,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Royal Trux,
Danielle Patucci,
The Blues Magoos,
Model 500,
Prince Buster,
Massinfluence,
Index,
Joensuu 1685,
Sight & Sound,
LL Cool J,
June Days,
Sister Nancy,
Cecil Taylor,
the Swans,
F. McDonald,
Masters at Work,
Intrusion,
Loose Ends,
Reagan Youth,
Warsaw,
The Sound,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Byron Stingily,
Unwound,
Ralphi Rosario,
Monolake,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.