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 Montenegro and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 oboe 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 D'Angelo to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eve St. Jones. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Girls At Our Best!,
FM Einheit,
Silicon Teens,
Sister Nancy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Swans,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Arab on Radar,
Moby Grape,
The Raincoats,
Hot Snakes,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Standells,
Symarip,
David Bowie,
Lakeside,
D'Angelo,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Blues Magoos,
Marmalade,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Motions,
The Wake,
Prince Buster,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Wally Richardson,
Janne Schatter,
Dennis Brown,
Average White Band,
World's Most,
Anthony Braxton,
Theoretical Girls,
Lyres,
James White and The Blacks,
Jandek,
John Foxx,
Shoche,
Marc Almond,
R.M.O.,
Steve Hackett,
The Dead C,
Country Teasers,
David McCallum,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rakim,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Panda Bear,
Scan 7,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Au Pairs,
Harmonia,
Camberwell Now,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Don Cherry,
Eric Copeland,
Tears for Fears,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Circle Jerks,
The Fire Engines,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.