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 Guinea and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the grunge 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 The Litter. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blossom Toes,
The Last Poets,
Traffic Nightmare,
Zapp,
Magma,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pole,
Cybotron,
The Leaves,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Urselle,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Groovy Waters,
Bobbi Humphrey,
F. McDonald,
Erykah Badu,
the Swans,
Con Funk Shun,
Soul Sonic Force,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Patti Smith,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Litter,
The Cowsills,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Carl Craig,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ice-T,
Pere Ubu,
Derrick Morgan,
Moebius,
The Monochrome Set,
Morten Harket,
LL Cool J,
Fela Kuti,
Cameo,
Kaleidoscope,
Colin Newman,
Marmalade,
Brass Construction,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Fire Engines,
The Blackbyrds,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Public Image Ltd.,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Underground Resistance,
Los Fastidios,
Drexciya,
DJ Style,
The Pop Group,
Judy Mowatt,
Sun City Girls,
Quantec,
Basic Channel,
The American Breed,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ronnie Foster,
Black Sheep,
Tropical Tobacco,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Moody Blues,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.