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 Guyana and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ 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 EPMD 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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mission of Burma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mark Hollis,
Ultra Naté,
Marc Almond,
Delta 5,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Wire,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soft Cell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The New Christs,
The Durutti Column,
Eric Copeland,
Symarip,
Television,
Cameo,
Sparks,
The Motions,
The Fall,
Carl Craig,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Hardrive,
Fugazi,
The Gun Club,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Das Ding,
Interpol,
Aloha Tigers,
Rapeman,
the Bar-Kays,
Livin' Joy,
Robert Hood,
Henry Cow,
Amon Düül,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Laurel Aitken,
Kaleidoscope,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thee Headcoats,
The Mojo Men,
Brick,
Davy DMX,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Yellowson,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Shuggie Otis,
The Sonics,
Monks,
LL Cool J,
Moby Grape,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Skriet,
The Vogues,
Derrick Morgan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Metal Thangz,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith.
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.