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 Lebanon 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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the grime 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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Bar-Kays record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
June Days,
Joy Division,
Lakeside,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Shadows of Knight,
Delta 5,
Boogie Down Productions,
Trumans Water,
Interpol,
CMW,
The Gun Club,
Pole,
Isaac Hayes,
Masters at Work,
Ornette Coleman,
Audionom,
Darondo,
Infiniti,
Funky Four + One,
Duran Duran,
The Index,
Joyce Sims,
World's Most,
Roy Ayers,
Swans,
Hardrive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
La Düsseldorf,
Bobby Sherman,
Scion,
These Immortal Souls,
The Litter,
The Techniques,
Yusef Lateef,
Con Funk Shun,
Scan 7,
Harpers Bizarre,
Drexciya,
Blake Baxter,
The Durutti Column,
Bad Manners,
Derrick Morgan,
Reagan Youth,
Y Pants,
Soul II Soul,
In Retrospect,
Sonic Youth,
Magma,
Minnie Riperton,
Mr. Review,
The Martian,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Anthony Braxton,
Rhythm & Sound,
Robert Görl,
Kaleidoscope,
The Black Dice,
Youth Brigade,
cv313,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.