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 Afghanistan and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Joensuu 1685 to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultimate Spinach 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
Dave Gahan,
Flash Fearless,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bluetip,
Isaac Hayes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Saccharine Trust,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lindisfarne,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Gap Band,
Arab on Radar,
Iggy Pop,
Vladislav Delay,
Procol Harum,
The Dead C,
Archie Shepp,
Camouflage,
Lou Christie,
Fela Kuti,
Sight & Sound,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
James White and The Blacks,
Flipper,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eve St. Jones,
Grauzone,
Sam Rivers,
Unrelated Segments,
Brick,
Marc Almond,
Girls At Our Best!,
John Lydon,
Freddie Wadling,
Blancmange,
Second Layer,
Ultravox,
Television,
Jerry's Kids,
The Music Machine,
Mandrill,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
U.S. Maple,
Jeff Mills,
Zapp,
Andrew Hill,
Dark Day,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lyres,
Reuben Wilson,
Dead Boys,
Rekid,
Neu!,
The Human League,
The American Breed,
Model 500,
Dawn Penn,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gerry Rafferty,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.