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 Nicaragua and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 JFA to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Swans,
Lyres,
Surgeon,
Fad Gadget,
FM Einheit,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Steve Hackett,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Detroit Cobras,
Erasure,
The New Christs,
Trumans Water,
Chris & Cosey,
Warsaw,
The Pop Group,
OOIOO,
The Trojans,
Livin' Joy,
Crash Course in Science,
Ludus,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Schoolly D,
Inner City,
Cecil Taylor,
New Age Steppers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jawbox,
Royal Trux,
D'Angelo,
In Retrospect,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mary Jane Girls,
This Heat,
Technova,
Symarip,
Swell Maps,
Harpers Bizarre,
Aaron Thompson,
Black Pus,
F. McDonald,
DJ Style,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marshall Jefferson,
Los Fastidios,
The Cramps,
Harmonia,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dennis Brown,
The Beau Brummels,
Sam Rivers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Au Pairs,
Moby Grape,
Kerri Chandler,
Althea and Donna,
Mars,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Oneida,
Index, Index, Index, Index.
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.