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 Guyana and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Tim Buckley to the grime 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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
Franke,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Associates,
Aswad,
Bronski Beat,
Hoover,
Lalo Schifrin,
Marine Girls,
ABC,
DNA,
Erykah Badu,
The Seeds,
Animal Collective,
Soft Cell,
June Days,
The Moleskins,
The Leaves,
Amon Düül,
Reuben Wilson,
Nico,
Althea and Donna,
Bauhaus,
Eden Ahbez,
Jandek,
MC5,
Television Personalities,
Main Source,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Stockholm Monsters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Model 500,
Sex Pistols,
The Doobie Brothers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Metal Thangz,
Eric Dolphy,
Nirvana,
Sexual Harrassment,
Scientists,
Saccharine Trust,
The Busters,
Dark Day,
Roxy Music,
Black Moon,
Eddi Front,
Laurel Aitken,
The Grass Roots,
Make Up,
Black Sheep,
Mad Mike,
ABBA,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
David Axelrod,
Drive Like Jehu,
Reagan Youth,
Matthew Bourne,
cv313,
X-102,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.