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 Thailand and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 KRS-One to the jazz 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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Lee Hazlewood,
Mission of Burma,
Drexciya,
Eve St. Jones,
Agitation Free,
Brothers Johnson,
10cc,
Lou Reed,
New Order,
Danielle Patucci,
Altered Images,
Davy DMX,
Joe Finger,
Dead Boys,
Erasure,
Saccharine Trust,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Joe Smooth,
Negative Approach,
Moss Icon,
Al Stewart,
Urselle,
Soul II Soul,
Young Marble Giants,
Marcia Griffiths,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Names,
Throbbing Gristle,
Eli Mardock,
Quadrant,
Adolescents,
the Fania All-Stars,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dennis Brown,
Interpol,
Blancmange,
Joensuu 1685,
The Move,
Suburban Knight,
Radio Birdman,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Porter Ricks,
Isaac Hayes,
Roy Ayers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The New Christs,
Brand Nubian,
Yellowson,
June Days,
The Zeros,
Maleditus Sound,
OOIOO,
David Axelrod,
Mark Hollis,
Derrick Morgan,
Todd Rundgren,
Nico,
MC5,
Pussy Galore,
Japan,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.