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 Ukraine and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 güiro 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 James White and The Blacks to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Bang on a Can All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
8 Eyed Spy,
Josef K,
Dual Sessions,
Alton Ellis,
Glenn Branca,
Iggy Pop,
Morten Harket,
Lee Hazlewood,
Danielle Patucci,
Andrew Hill,
Television Personalities,
FM Einheit,
The Trojans,
Soulsonic Force,
David McCallum,
Eurythmics,
Crispy Ambulance,
Unrelated Segments,
New Order,
The Gap Band,
Quadrant,
The Fugs,
Porter Ricks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Basic Channel,
Carl Craig,
The Beau Brummels,
Skarface,
The Seeds,
Kerrie Biddell,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Johnny Osbourne,
Maleditus Sound,
Index,
Electric Prunes,
The New Christs,
Camouflage,
The Barracudas,
Peter & Gordon,
Buzzcocks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Essential Logic,
Excepter,
The Offenders,
The Raincoats,
The Divine Comedy,
Chris Corsano,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Negative Approach,
Soul Sonic Force,
David Bowie,
Rites of Spring,
The Kinks,
Ohio Players,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun City Girls,
Pole,
Joensuu 1685,
Ultra Naté,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.