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 Malta and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 synthesizer 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 Darondo to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crooked Eye,
Smog,
Reagan Youth,
Cybotron,
Television,
Ituana,
JFA,
Chrome,
the Bar-Kays,
Second Layer,
Nick Fraelich,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Last Poets,
Sixth Finger,
Skaos,
Amon Düül II,
Glenn Branca,
The Fuzztones,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Hashim,
Crispy Ambulance,
Fear,
T.S.O.L.,
Morten Harket,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
London Community Gospel Choir,
R.M.O.,
Joyce Sims,
Danielle Patucci,
Tubeway Army,
Gang Starr,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kevin Saunderson,
Radiopuhelimet,
DNA,
Agent Orange,
The Happenings,
Josef K,
Unrelated Segments,
In Retrospect,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Erykah Badu,
The Monks,
the Soft Cell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scion,
Shuggie Otis,
Radio Birdman,
Skriet,
The Walker Brothers,
Eden Ahbez,
Pagans,
the Swans,
Hasil Adkins,
The Smoke,
PIL,
Eli Mardock,
Anakelly,
The Zeros,
Lindisfarne,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.