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 Ireland and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Mr. Review. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sällskapet,
the Human League,
Das Ding,
Marshall Jefferson,
Au Pairs,
Shuggie Otis,
Soul II Soul,
The Moleskins,
Sister Nancy,
Andrew Hill,
The Doobie Brothers,
Supertramp,
Nils Olav,
Tres Demented,
Grey Daturas,
Skaos,
The Star Department,
The Cramps,
Peter & Gordon,
Amazonics,
James White and The Blacks,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barrington Levy,
Blossom Toes,
The Selecter,
Eddi Front,
The Human League,
Brand Nubian,
T. Rex,
Mars,
Gang Green,
Danielle Patucci,
Cheater Slicks,
Nas,
Monks,
Ludus,
Camberwell Now,
Curtis Mayfield,
Angry Samoans,
Frankie Knuckles,
Harmonia,
Lou Reed,
Los Fastidios,
Terrestrial Tones,
Q and Not U,
kango's stein massive,
Flipper,
Technova,
Rakim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ultimate Spinach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cluster,
Underground Resistance,
Pierre Henry,
Yusef Lateef,
Grandmaster Flash,
Electric Prunes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.