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 Suriname and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Gap Band to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
Hardrive,
Ohio Players,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marc Almond,
Swans,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Aaron Thompson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Raincoats,
Alton Ellis,
Amon Düül,
Gichy Dan,
Faust,
The Star Department,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rod Modell,
Eurythmics,
X-Ray Spex,
Bobby Hutcherson,
K-Klass,
The Durutti Column,
DJ Style,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Severed Heads,
Marvin Gaye,
Reuben Wilson,
Toni Rubio,
The Mummies,
Robert Wyatt,
Soft Machine,
Ludus,
Pet Shop Boys,
Mr. Review,
Sun City Girls,
The Busters,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tim Buckley,
Robert Hood,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Womack,
Television,
Lyres,
Youth Brigade,
Vladislav Delay,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Alison Limerick,
Roxy Music,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rakim,
Lungfish,
Laurel Aitken,
Shoche,
The Dave Clark Five,
Isaac Hayes,
Main Source,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.