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 Nigeria and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Talk Talk to the punk 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Offenders,
The Buckinghams,
MDC,
Bang On A Can,
Jerry's Kids,
The Dirtbombs,
Swell Maps,
Grauzone,
Dave Gahan,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sonny Sharrock,
Byron Stingily,
Fear,
Deepchord,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Warsaw,
The Litter,
a-ha,
The Five Americans,
Nas,
Scratch Acid,
Absolute Body Control,
the Slits,
Lucky Dragons,
The Cure,
Rufus Thomas,
Black Pus,
Y Pants,
Japan,
Robert Hood,
Barrington Levy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Matthew Halsall,
Zero Boys,
New Order,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pylon,
Bill Wells,
Country Teasers,
Camouflage,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Minnie Riperton,
Sonic Youth,
Make Up,
Eden Ahbez,
Angry Samoans,
The Velvet Underground,
Idris Muhammad,
Masters at Work,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Infiniti,
Bad Manners,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mark Hollis,
X-101,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.