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 Guatemala and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Black Pus to the rap 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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
In Retrospect,
Peter & Gordon,
Isaac Hayes,
Liliput,
Alison Limerick,
Niagra,
Rotary Connection,
Make Up,
Heaven 17,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Adolescents,
Aural Exciters,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Modern Lovers,
Avey Tare,
Arcadia,
H. Thieme,
Dark Day,
The Wake,
Jimmy McGriff,
UT,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Index,
Soul II Soul,
Visage,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
10cc,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Walker Brothers,
Bizarre Inc.,
Eric B and Rakim,
Juan Atkins,
Neu!,
D'Angelo,
Moby Grape,
Whodini,
The Standells,
Youth Brigade,
Man Parrish,
Donny Hathaway,
Jerry's Kids,
Fat Boys,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Raincoats,
The Monochrome Set,
the Bar-Kays,
Andrew Hill,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Danielle Patucci,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lou Christie,
Scan 7,
Clear Light,
Porter Ricks,
Donald Byrd,
Television Personalities,
Zero Boys,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.