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 Mongolia and from Johannesburg.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Massinfluence to the jazz 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
The Zeros,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Model 500,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bang On A Can,
Archie Shepp,
the Association,
The Black Dice,
In Retrospect,
Sparks,
New York Dolls,
Bobby Byrd,
Reagan Youth,
Pagans,
Danielle Patucci,
Moebius,
Sex Pistols,
Cecil Taylor,
Rufus Thomas,
The Move,
Aaron Thompson,
Soft Machine,
Tubeway Army,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Blossom Toes,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Dirtbombs,
Soulsonic Force,
Bauhaus,
The Gories,
Kurtis Blow,
Lindisfarne,
DNA,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lower 48,
The Associates,
Derrick Morgan,
EPMD,
Kerrie Biddell,
Adolescents,
The New Christs,
Blancmange,
Traffic Nightmare,
Joey Negro,
Pulsallama,
Babytalk,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Oblivians,
Nirvana,
MC5,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Rotary Connection,
Jerry's Kids,
Black Bananas,
Section 25,
Roxy Music,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
kango's stein massive,
Nico,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.