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 Georgia and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 clarinet 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 Moebius to the grime 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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
Soul Sonic Force,
Unwound,
Trumans Water,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ronan,
Al Stewart,
Derrick May,
Donald Byrd,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eden Ahbez,
DJ Sneak,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bad Manners,
Cheater Slicks,
Reagan Youth,
The Pop Group,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Victims,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Residents,
Aswad,
Minny Pops,
Scott Walker,
Deadbeat,
The J.B.'s,
The Skatalites,
Average White Band,
F. McDonald,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Seeds,
Flash Fearless,
The Martian,
Camouflage,
Crispian St. Peters,
Wasted Youth,
Roger Hodgson,
The Gladiators,
Arcadia,
Sarah Menescal,
Altered Images,
Suburban Knight,
The Neon Judgement,
Amazonics,
Faraquet,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jawbox,
The Black Dice,
The Stooges,
Mars,
Anakelly,
Fela Kuti,
Jandek,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
New Order,
Stereo Dub,
The Dave Clark Five,
Skriet,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Cowsills,
Sugar Minott,
Oblivians,
Bobby Byrd,
ABBA, ABBA, ABBA, ABBA.
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.