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 Ireland and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 David Bowie 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 Louis and Bebe Barron to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Prunes,
Marmalade,
Ultra Naté,
Motorama,
Intrusion,
The Tremeloes,
Ituana,
Roy Ayers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
MDC,
Dark Day,
Inner City,
Pole,
Eli Mardock,
Loose Ends,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Agent Orange,
Dorothy Ashby,
Urselle,
Ken Boothe,
Underground Resistance,
Moebius,
Blancmange,
Godley & Creme,
The Grass Roots,
Amon Düül,
A Certain Ratio,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Archie Shepp,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Patti Smith,
Oneida,
Fela Kuti,
These Immortal Souls,
Average White Band,
Black Pus,
Panda Bear,
The Mummies,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lucky Dragons,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Techniques,
Davy DMX,
Excepter,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rakim,
Janne Schatter,
The Busters,
Sister Nancy,
Marc Almond,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Babytalk,
R.M.O.,
Kayak,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Public Enemy,
David McCallum,
Joyce Sims,
The Toasters,
Mandrill,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fad Gadget,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.