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 Liberia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Lucky Dragons to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Make Up,
Theoretical Girls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ornette Coleman,
Mad Mike,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
In Retrospect,
Sonny Sharrock,
The J.B.'s,
LL Cool J,
Infiniti,
Clear Light,
Dave Gahan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
Niagra,
Tears for Fears,
Prince Buster,
Half Japanese,
Wally Richardson,
Groovy Waters,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Letta Mbulu,
The Real Kids,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Fania All-Stars,
Simply Red,
The Buckinghams,
EPMD,
Adolescents,
Loose Ends,
Ohio Players,
Symarip,
Brass Construction,
Neil Young,
Cecil Taylor,
Nick Fraelich,
Drexciya,
Minor Threat,
Main Source,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ituana,
Dawn Penn,
Swell Maps,
Marc Almond,
Quadrant,
Althea and Donna,
Nils Olav,
The Mummies,
The Angels of Light,
Black Flag,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
A Certain Ratio,
The Cure,
Porter Ricks,
Aloha Tigers,
Funkadelic,
Alphaville,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.