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 Antigua and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Paris.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare 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 10cc to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Victims. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Divine Comedy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Glenn Branca,
JFA,
Masters at Work,
Wings,
a-ha,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Sound,
Aswad,
The American Breed,
Marine Girls,
Glambeats Corp.,
Mandrill,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Doors,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gang Gang Dance,
MC5,
Rapeman,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Stiv Bators,
Ultimate Spinach,
Yellowson,
David Axelrod,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
World's Most,
Niagra,
Basic Channel,
Radiohead,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dead Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Inner City,
Arcadia,
Soul II Soul,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Zero Boys,
Marshall Jefferson,
Junior Murvin,
Subhumans,
Pantytec,
The Fire Engines,
Prince Buster,
Maleditus Sound,
Gichy Dan,
Todd Rundgren,
Kenny Larkin,
Hot Snakes,
Sandy B,
Urselle,
Quando Quango,
Vainqueur,
Juan Atkins,
CMW,
Marc Almond,
Eric Copeland,
Kool Moe Dee,
David Bowie,
Brothers Johnson,
Liliput,
the Germs, the Germs, the Germs, the Germs.
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.