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 Brazil and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Deepchord to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Cheater Slicks,
World's Most,
The Busters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Basic Channel,
China Crisis,
Qualms,
8 Eyed Spy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Erykah Badu,
Half Japanese,
Public Enemy,
Section 25,
Arab on Radar,
Von Mondo,
Tim Buckley,
LL Cool J,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Camouflage,
Mandrill,
Bang On A Can,
The Index,
Albert Ayler,
Juan Atkins,
Jeff Mills,
Wolf Eyes,
John Holt,
Dave Gahan,
the Association,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Radiohead,
Yellowson,
Reagan Youth,
L. Decosne,
John Cale,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Vladislav Delay,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Young Rascals,
Grey Daturas,
The Searchers,
Rakim,
Groovy Waters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rosa Yemen,
Deadbeat,
Icehouse,
Blancmange,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Agent Orange,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Names,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Zeros,
Main Source,
The Evens,
Television Personalities,
Connie Case,
The Saints,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.