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 Liberia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin 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 Roger Hodgson to the electroclash 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 The Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Clarke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Roy Ayers,
Cymande,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Parry Music,
The Neon Judgement,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lower 48,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sparks,
Shoche,
Interpol,
Clear Light,
The Birthday Party,
The Divine Comedy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Music Machine,
Dark Day,
Lakeside,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeff Lynne,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ken Boothe,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kenny Larkin,
Stetsasonic,
Danielle Patucci,
The Kinks,
cv313,
Soft Cell,
Flamin' Groovies,
F. McDonald,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Sisters of Mercy,
DJ Sneak,
X-101,
Scion,
Lucky Dragons,
Minnie Riperton,
the Fania All-Stars,
Adolescents,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
DJ Style,
The Doors,
Mantronix,
ABC,
The Monks,
Pagans,
Cybotron,
Patti Smith,
Au Pairs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Delta 5,
Sight & Sound,
The Black Dice,
Little Man,
Wally Richardson,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Vogues,
Thompson Twins,
Wasted Youth,
Alice Coltrane,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.