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 Guatemala and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 Reagan Youth to the rock 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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tropical Tobacco record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Au Pairs,
Basic Channel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Slick Rick,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lakeside,
Skaos,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ice-T,
Brand Nubian,
The Toasters,
Henry Cow,
Ultravox,
The Evens,
Section 25,
L. Decosne,
Bauhaus,
Jesper Dahlback,
Khruangbin,
Inner City,
The Selecter,
Excepter,
Donny Hathaway,
Urselle,
Chris & Cosey,
The Gories,
Jeff Lynne,
The Durutti Column,
Dennis Brown,
The Barracudas,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Morten Harket,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
KRS-One,
Roxy Music,
Cal Tjader,
In Retrospect,
Throbbing Gristle,
Anthony Braxton,
Cecil Taylor,
Nirvana,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Popol Vuh,
Bill Wells,
Young Marble Giants,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Alphaville,
Sound Behaviour,
Ultimate Spinach,
Patti Smith,
Bronski Beat,
Darondo,
Tres Demented,
Average White Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Funky Four + One,
The Gun Club,
the Swans,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.