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 Macedonia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 snare 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 Man Eating Sloth to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Joey Negro,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Section 25,
Accadde A,
Pussy Galore,
Curtis Mayfield,
Moebius,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flipper,
Depeche Mode,
Al Stewart,
Derrick Morgan,
Scan 7,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rites of Spring,
Leonard Cohen,
Spoonie Gee,
The Move,
Bad Manners,
Patti Smith,
the Normal,
The Gun Club,
Qualms,
Alice Coltrane,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jerry's Kids,
Bootsy Collins,
Gregory Isaacs,
Nirvana,
ABC,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Animal Collective,
LL Cool J,
The Blackbyrds,
The Residents,
Neu!,
Beasts of Bourbon,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Fire Engines,
Von Mondo,
Mission of Burma,
Rufus Thomas,
Minor Threat,
Cal Tjader,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Blossom Toes,
Dennis Brown,
Pylon,
The American Breed,
Bobby Womack,
Fela Kuti,
Godley & Creme,
Lalann,
The Dirtbombs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Agitation Free,
Dave Gahan,
Frankie Knuckles,
Eric Dolphy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.