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 Romania and from Toronto.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Skatalites to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
Thompson Twins,
Kerrie Biddell,
Barrington Levy,
Pantaleimon,
Traffic Nightmare,
Roxette,
Silicon Teens,
Sandy B,
Morten Harket,
L. Decosne,
Young Marble Giants,
Thee Headcoats,
John Foxx,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sun City Girls,
10cc,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The United States of America,
Organ,
Laurel Aitken,
Siglo XX,
Jandek,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Davy DMX,
Derrick May,
Banda Bassotti,
Can,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tim Buckley,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Cymande,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Associates,
Lebanon Hanover,
Shuggie Otis,
Chris Corsano,
The Busters,
Technova,
Half Japanese,
The Residents,
The J.B.'s,
The New Christs,
The Doors,
Crime,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sparks,
Funky Four + One,
Hasil Adkins,
Popol Vuh,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cheater Slicks,
The Beau Brummels,
The Fugs,
Unrelated Segments,
Nico,
Letta Mbulu,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kurtis Blow,
Adolescents,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.