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 Bahamas and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 marimba 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 Fugazi to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Blossom Toes. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Litter,
Marc Almond,
Roxette,
Arcadia,
The Stooges,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Womack,
Section 25,
Mark Hollis,
Harmonia,
The Barracudas,
Soul II Soul,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Thompson Twins,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Wire,
Soft Machine,
Khruangbin,
Zapp,
New Age Steppers,
CMW,
World's Most,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Chris Corsano,
The Cure,
Bluetip,
Hoover,
Derrick Morgan,
Andrew Hill,
The Zeros,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Motions,
Sällskapet,
Massinfluence,
Slick Rick,
Pole,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Neon Judgement,
Oblivians,
Minnie Riperton,
The Blues Magoos,
Radiopuhelimet,
Moss Icon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Circle Jerks,
Patti Smith,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Donny Hathaway,
Leonard Cohen,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Evens,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ronan,
The Selecter,
Jesper Dahlback,
D'Angelo,
The Red Krayola,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.