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 Panama and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Essential Logic to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Country Teasers,
Skaos,
Cymande,
Adolescents,
Loose Ends,
Drexciya,
Patti Smith,
Byron Stingily,
L. Decosne,
The Evens,
The Misunderstood,
Eve St. Jones,
Public Enemy,
Whodini,
The Count Five,
Tubeway Army,
Wasted Youth,
EPMD,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cybotron,
The Doobie Brothers,
Steve Hackett,
Panda Bear,
Curtis Mayfield,
Agent Orange,
Young Marble Giants,
Max Romeo,
Gastr Del Sol,
Urselle,
Anakelly,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lindisfarne,
Leonard Cohen,
Cal Tjader,
David Bowie,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vainqueur,
Girls At Our Best!,
Simply Red,
Faraquet,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rites of Spring,
Minor Threat,
Kurtis Blow,
The Vogues,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Litter,
Intrusion,
the Fania All-Stars,
Flash Fearless,
Althea and Donna,
Rhythm & Sound,
Marvin Gaye,
Nas,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cheater Slicks,
Erykah Badu,
Q65,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.