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 Seychelles and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the guitar 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 Talk Talk to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sonic Youth,
Half Japanese,
The Moleskins,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
E-Dancer,
Nico,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Janne Schatter,
Carl Craig,
The Searchers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pere Ubu,
Marshall Jefferson,
Minor Threat,
Ken Boothe,
Eddi Front,
Cymande,
Ronnie Foster,
Sun City Girls,
Rakim,
Girls At Our Best!,
Johnny Clarke,
Bob Dylan,
Siglo XX,
Minny Pops,
Rhythm & Sound,
Colin Newman,
Malaria!,
Andrew Hill,
Angry Samoans,
Ohio Players,
The Shadows of Knight,
Country Teasers,
Scott Walker,
PIL,
Excepter,
Peter and Kerry,
The Walker Brothers,
Agent Orange,
The Techniques,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Simply Red,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Doors,
Tim Buckley,
Patti Smith,
Ten City,
Arab on Radar,
Monolake,
The Electric Prunes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chris & Cosey,
The Misunderstood,
Rod Modell,
Skarface,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Electric Prunes,
the Bar-Kays,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.