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 France and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the snare 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 Cal Tjader to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mission of Burma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Monks,
Tomorrow,
The Skatalites,
Mr. Review,
Sight & Sound,
Animal Collective,
Kayak,
H. Thieme,
Duran Duran,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Eddi Front,
Angry Samoans,
Pantaleimon,
The Blues Magoos,
LL Cool J,
Carl Craig,
Ken Boothe,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ossler,
Soul II Soul,
Tom Boy,
New York Dolls,
Drexciya,
Schoolly D,
Panda Bear,
Idris Muhammad,
Joensuu 1685,
Donald Byrd,
Robert Wyatt,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Black Sheep,
The Blackbyrds,
Roy Ayers,
Television,
Vladislav Delay,
The Music Machine,
Matthew Halsall,
Country Teasers,
MDC,
The Modern Lovers,
Eurythmics,
Shoche,
the Swans,
Sparks,
T.S.O.L.,
Pierre Henry,
Bang On A Can,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eric B and Rakim,
Procol Harum,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Arthur Verocai,
The Real Kids,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Detroit Cobras,
Soft Cell,
Faraquet,
X-101,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.