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 Portugal and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
The Zeros,
Quando Quango,
Ten City,
Marmalade,
Panda Bear,
John Foxx,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Mummies,
Bobby Byrd,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Association,
Simply Red,
Loose Ends,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Motorama,
Zapp,
Lower 48,
Anakelly,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Negative Approach,
Can,
Liliput,
Neu!,
Metal Thangz,
Al Stewart,
Sonic Youth,
Khruangbin,
Moss Icon,
Gabor Szabo,
Bobby Sherman,
Marshall Jefferson,
kango's stein massive,
Carl Craig,
Reuben Wilson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Urselle,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Barbara Tucker,
Scott Walker,
Kaleidoscope,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scratch Acid,
The Seeds,
The Mighty Diamonds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Easy Going,
The American Breed,
The Black Dice,
Shuggie Otis,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Motions,
Joe Smooth,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Doobie Brothers,
Scrapy,
Sound Behaviour,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Beasts of Bourbon,
La Düsseldorf,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.