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 Venezuela and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Drexciya to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Scott Walker,
Fear,
Ultravox,
The Seeds,
Throbbing Gristle,
Monks,
Desert Stars,
Cecil Taylor,
Porter Ricks,
Andrew Hill,
Black Flag,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gong,
Tubeway Army,
The Doors,
Bobby Womack,
Eve St. Jones,
The Blackbyrds,
These Immortal Souls,
Crispy Ambulance,
Siglo XX,
Con Funk Shun,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
K-Klass,
Todd Rundgren,
David Axelrod,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cheater Slicks,
Frankie Knuckles,
Zapp,
New Order,
Essential Logic,
Soulsonic Force,
Bootsy Collins,
The Shadows of Knight,
Warren Ellis,
Isaac Hayes,
Lindisfarne,
the Swans,
Circle Jerks,
Joensuu 1685,
David Bowie,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Loose Ends,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Newcleus,
Kevin Saunderson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Joe Finger,
Nation of Ulysses,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Danielle Patucci,
Gang Starr,
Nas,
Liliput,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.