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 Estonia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Soul Sonic Force to the techno 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 Blossom Toes. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
The New Christs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
FM Einheit,
Wings,
The Saints,
Joey Negro,
Aaron Thompson,
The Motions,
Echospace,
Television,
Max Romeo,
Erykah Badu,
Duran Duran,
The Litter,
Tears for Fears,
Davy DMX,
Groovy Waters,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Buckinghams,
Excepter,
D'Angelo,
Toni Rubio,
Black Bananas,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Knickerbockers,
The Invisible,
Andrew Hill,
Johnny Clarke,
Average White Band,
Judy Mowatt,
Soul II Soul,
Lungfish,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Seeds,
Depeche Mode,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eurythmics,
Basic Channel,
Rod Modell,
Ultra Naté,
The Mummies,
Steve Hackett,
Prince Buster,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gichy Dan,
Don Cherry,
T.S.O.L.,
Brass Construction,
Rites of Spring,
The Remains,
Curtis Mayfield,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kaleidoscope,
The Sonics,
Motorama,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.