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 United Kingdom and from New York.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 linndrum 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 Dark Day to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
Morten Harket,
Curtis Mayfield,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Erykah Badu,
Cheater Slicks,
Theoretical Girls,
Reagan Youth,
Mr. Review,
Ornette Coleman,
Bobby Womack,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Skatalites,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Fugs,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultimate Spinach,
The American Breed,
Lindisfarne,
The Slits,
Radio Birdman,
The Sound,
Junior Murvin,
Charles Mingus,
David Bowie,
Arcadia,
Leonard Cohen,
Sun Ra,
Roy Ayers,
Pole,
Wire,
Byron Stingily,
The Fall,
Trumans Water,
Joy Division,
Matthew Bourne,
The Index,
Jacques Brel,
Kas Product,
Joyce Sims,
Isaac Hayes,
Ultra Naté,
Grauzone,
Inner City,
Aswad,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Faraquet,
Funky Four + One,
The United States of America,
It's A Beautiful Day,
New Order,
Marcia Griffiths,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kerri Chandler,
Juan Atkins,
Sonic Youth,
The Mummies,
Freddie Wadling,
Dual Sessions,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Dead C,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.