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 Tuvalu and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator 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 Toni Rubio to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. 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 '90s.
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 Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gang Starr,
Minor Threat,
Newcleus,
The New Christs,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Real Kids,
Juan Atkins,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Masters at Work,
Aswad,
Adolescents,
Minny Pops,
E-Dancer,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
ABBA,
Blancmange,
Lou Christie,
Vladislav Delay,
Rosa Yemen,
Godley & Creme,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Arthur Verocai,
Ultra Naté,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Alison Limerick,
Sun Ra,
ABC,
Quando Quango,
Dennis Brown,
Yaz,
The Cure,
The Count Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jandek,
Lungfish,
China Crisis,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Human League,
Slave,
Silicon Teens,
Clear Light,
Dual Sessions,
Nas,
Make Up,
Glambeats Corp.,
Metal Thangz,
Tim Buckley,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Gladiators,
Stereo Dub,
Scrapy,
Ten City,
The Divine Comedy,
John Coltrane,
Aloha Tigers,
Harry Pussy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ponytail,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.