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 San Marino and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 808 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 Gil Scott Heron to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sparks,
June of 44,
JFA,
Young Marble Giants,
Unrelated Segments,
Marvin Gaye,
the Human League,
Soul Sonic Force,
New Order,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Erykah Badu,
Angry Samoans,
Hashim,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dawn Penn,
The Invisible,
Stereo Dub,
Infiniti,
Fluxion,
PIL,
Amon Düül,
Alice Coltrane,
Lebanon Hanover,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Blackbyrds,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pagans,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Detroit Cobras,
Johnny Clarke,
The Doobie Brothers,
World's Most,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stetsasonic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fugazi,
Harry Pussy,
Todd Rundgren,
Dual Sessions,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Prince Buster,
Easy Going,
Lucky Dragons,
Symarip,
Aloha Tigers,
Audionom,
Roger Hodgson,
Altered Images,
Spoonie Gee,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rod Modell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Reagan Youth,
Franke,
Visage,
Bootsy Collins,
Andrew Hill,
Moss Icon,
The Mummies,
Television Personalities,
The Black Dice,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.