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 China and from Shanghai.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
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 Anthony Braxton to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Sisters of Mercy. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Hardrive,
Donny Hathaway,
Funky Four + One,
Amon Düül II,
Jimmy McGriff,
New Age Steppers,
Ten City,
The Remains,
Monolake,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eden Ahbez,
Marine Girls,
Pole,
The Leaves,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Scion,
Sound Behaviour,
Black Sheep,
Jeff Mills,
Bobby Sherman,
The Gladiators,
MC5,
Boogie Down Productions,
The J.B.'s,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Slave,
Andrew Hill,
Dave Gahan,
Average White Band,
Suicide,
Grey Daturas,
Animal Collective,
Derrick May,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Scan 7,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Das Ding,
Stereo Dub,
Godley & Creme,
Johnny Clarke,
The Gap Band,
Fatback Band,
EPMD,
Lucky Dragons,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Duran Duran,
Althea and Donna,
Byron Stingily,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Blues Magoos,
The Shadows of Knight,
Barrington Levy,
Underground Resistance,
Magazine,
Marc Almond,
Sun City Girls,
The Mojo Men,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.