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 Eritrea and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 electroclash 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 The Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Big Daddy Kane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Görl,
Echospace,
The Five Americans,
Buzzcocks,
Spandau Ballet,
Massinfluence,
Gil Scott Heron,
Severed Heads,
Sister Nancy,
Subhumans,
New York Dolls,
Hot Snakes,
Sex Pistols,
Negative Approach,
Skarface,
Talk Talk,
Visage,
Rod Modell,
Unwound,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
La Düsseldorf,
The Skatalites,
10cc,
Carl Craig,
Rakim,
Kurtis Blow,
Grauzone,
New Order,
The Pop Group,
T.S.O.L.,
The Evens,
Silicon Teens,
Accadde A,
Duran Duran,
Public Enemy,
David McCallum,
The Detroit Cobras,
Oblivians,
Aloha Tigers,
Lalann,
Half Japanese,
Andrew Hill,
Roger Hodgson,
The Mummies,
Whodini,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Flesh Eaters,
Skriet,
Girls At Our Best!,
Donny Hathaway,
Minor Threat,
Wire,
Freddie Wadling,
Smog,
Warsaw,
Tears for Fears,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.