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 Nauru and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar 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 Alphaville to the grunge 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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Walker Brothers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cecil Taylor,
Infiniti,
Gang of Four,
Scion,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Busters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eric Dolphy,
Skarface,
Second Layer,
Robert Hood,
Blossom Toes,
Massinfluence,
Eurythmics,
The Angels of Light,
Mad Mike,
Jeff Mills,
The Techniques,
Spandau Ballet,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pole,
The American Breed,
Stiv Bators,
Rufus Thomas,
Alphaville,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
John Lydon,
Fatback Band,
Erasure,
Little Man,
Qualms,
The Count Five,
K-Klass,
Glambeats Corp.,
Graham Central Station,
The Buckinghams,
MDC,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Index,
Roger Hodgson,
Glenn Branca,
Brass Construction,
Hoover,
Oneida,
Franke,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tubeway Army,
Cybotron,
the Soft Cell,
Lou Reed,
Japan,
8 Eyed Spy,
Black Flag,
Index,
Iggy Pop,
Blake Baxter,
Chris Corsano,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.