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 Benin and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Grandmaster Flash to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blossom Toes,
Excepter,
Aural Exciters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joey Negro,
Groovy Waters,
Eli Mardock,
The Grass Roots,
Pylon,
The Techniques,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Unrelated Segments,
Amazonics,
Toni Rubio,
Bad Manners,
Don Cherry,
X-102,
Kerri Chandler,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gang Starr,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Das Ding,
Kayak,
Essential Logic,
Eddi Front,
Ken Boothe,
X-Ray Spex,
Charles Mingus,
The Monks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Maurizio,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Move,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Seeds,
Brothers Johnson,
A Certain Ratio,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Count Five,
The Alarm Clocks,
Metal Thangz,
Robert Wyatt,
Jerry's Kids,
Scientists,
UT,
The Pretty Things,
Warren Ellis,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Kinks,
Shoche,
Faraquet,
the Slits,
Pole,
Y Pants,
Pierre Henry,
Terry Callier,
Barrington Levy,
David Bowie,
Trumans Water,
Fugazi,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.