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 Ukraine and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 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 The Motions to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Busters,
Sugar Minott,
The Velvet Underground,
Niagra,
The Moleskins,
Public Enemy,
Marshall Jefferson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Derrick Morgan,
Drive Like Jehu,
Parry Music,
Youth Brigade,
U.S. Maple,
Panda Bear,
Idris Muhammad,
Yellowson,
Bluetip,
Au Pairs,
Eddi Front,
The Five Americans,
Agent Orange,
Bobby Byrd,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Searchers,
Minny Pops,
Lakeside,
Alphaville,
Saccharine Trust,
Boredoms,
Faraquet,
Heaven 17,
D'Angelo,
Erasure,
Lightning Bolt,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Organ,
Rotary Connection,
T. Rex,
Fort Wilson Riot,
In Retrospect,
Alison Limerick,
Mission of Burma,
Lou Christie,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Goldenarms,
Delon & Dalcan,
Silicon Teens,
Gabor Szabo,
Prince Buster,
Lou Reed,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The New Christs,
David Bowie,
Animal Collective,
Sixth Finger,
Josef K,
The Slackers,
Gong,
Khruangbin,
Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras.
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.