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 Mali and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Saints to the techno 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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Mummies,
Graham Central Station,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Todd Rundgren,
Yellowson,
Marvin Gaye,
Anthony Braxton,
The New Christs,
Tom Boy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Peter and Kerry,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Delon & Dalcan,
Black Moon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mars,
Ponytail,
The Techniques,
Symarip,
Donald Byrd,
Terry Callier,
Joy Division,
Porter Ricks,
One Last Wish,
Swell Maps,
Masters at Work,
ABBA,
Jacob Miller,
Silicon Teens,
Mission of Burma,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Human League,
The Associates,
Piero Umiliani,
Malaria!,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Grauzone,
Depeche Mode,
Quadrant,
Peter & Gordon,
a-ha,
Al Stewart,
Marine Girls,
The Names,
Scott Walker,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mantronix,
Flash Fearless,
E-Dancer,
Albert Ayler,
John Coltrane,
A Certain Ratio,
Scan 7,
Los Fastidios,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bootsy Collins,
Susan Cadogan,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.