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 Bangladesh 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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Stockholm.
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 sitar 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the disco 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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar 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 a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
Mark Hollis,
Severed Heads,
The Selecter,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Skaos,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fugazi,
Monolake,
Ice-T,
Stiv Bators,
Lucky Dragons,
Boogie Down Productions,
Average White Band,
Kayak,
The Alarm Clocks,
Outsiders,
The Count Five,
Cheater Slicks,
Motorama,
Erykah Badu,
Rosa Yemen,
Flipper,
The Zeros,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Swans,
Faraquet,
The Wake,
Eve St. Jones,
Sparks,
The Slackers,
Livin' Joy,
KRS-One,
Television Personalities,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Peter & Gordon,
Smog,
Warren Ellis,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gabor Szabo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Monochrome Set,
Gang of Four,
Minor Threat,
Tommy Roe,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dennis Brown,
Gerry Rafferty,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lalann,
Jimmy McGriff,
Brass Construction,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Slits,
Scratch Acid,
The Cramps,
the Germs,
Das Ding,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.