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 Greece and from Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kango’s Stein Massive. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gladiators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
Cybotron,
Hoover,
The Pretty Things,
Amon Düül II,
Man Parrish,
Patti Smith,
Easy Going,
Public Enemy,
Buzzcocks,
Yazoo,
The Doors,
EPMD,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
June Days,
Blancmange,
Skaos,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Negative Approach,
Black Bananas,
LL Cool J,
The Five Americans,
Chris & Cosey,
10cc,
Pierre Henry,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mantronix,
Bill Wells,
Nils Olav,
Quantec,
Nick Fraelich,
Surgeon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pantytec,
Derrick May,
Main Source,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Vogues,
The Invisible,
La Düsseldorf,
The Cure,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fatback Band,
Oneida,
Masters at Work,
Altered Images,
Organ,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ice-T,
Boz Scaggs,
Bang On A Can,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Real Kids,
Trumans Water,
Dawn Penn,
Bad Manners,
Kenny Larkin,
Roxy Music,
Howard Jones,
Bob Dylan,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.