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 Belize and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 FM Einheit to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Move. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 48th St. Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
June of 44,
Ohio Players,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pantytec,
The J.B.'s,
Royal Trux,
Clear Light,
UT,
Eden Ahbez,
Fad Gadget,
Kaleidoscope,
Nick Fraelich,
X-102,
Mantronix,
Motorama,
The Angels of Light,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Depeche Mode,
Pantaleimon,
Yusef Lateef,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Grass Roots,
The Raincoats,
Crime,
Television Personalities,
The Cowsills,
Ossler,
Scientists,
Donny Hathaway,
Severed Heads,
The Fall,
Yaz,
The Gladiators,
Crash Course in Science,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scratch Acid,
Rufus Thomas,
Jacques Brel,
Saccharine Trust,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pulsallama,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Young Marble Giants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Zero Boys,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
CMW,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rotary Connection,
Q65,
The Blackbyrds,
Soft Machine,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Invisible,
Idris Muhammad,
Gong,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.