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 Peru and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 The Happenings to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
The Zeros,
Connie Case,
Peter & Gordon,
Intrusion,
Blake Baxter,
The Fall,
T.S.O.L.,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eden Ahbez,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Black Dice,
Q65,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Robert Görl,
Sun City Girls,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jacob Miller,
Gang of Four,
Gong,
Anakelly,
Nick Fraelich,
Jandek,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Pretty Things,
Jacques Brel,
The Gories,
Black Pus,
John Holt,
Morten Harket,
The Music Machine,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Barbara Tucker,
Flash Fearless,
Joyce Sims,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
R.M.O.,
Gang Green,
Mars,
Alison Limerick,
Joe Smooth,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Masters at Work,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Arcadia,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Freddie Wadling,
Symarip,
Bad Manners,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
H. Thieme,
The Kinks,
Grauzone,
Patti Smith,
Sonny Sharrock,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Bananas,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Monks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Minnie Riperton,
Warsaw,
Max Romeo,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.