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 Hungary and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Pierre Henry to the disco 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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
The Victims,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Infiniti,
Mantronix,
Sexual Harrassment,
Slave,
Godley & Creme,
AZ,
Swans,
A Certain Ratio,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Human League,
The Martian,
K-Klass,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Skatalites,
Newcleus,
Silicon Teens,
Colin Newman,
Deadbeat,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Roy Ayers,
Vainqueur,
Faust,
The Index,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Simply Red,
Kayak,
The Blackbyrds,
The Fall,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cal Tjader,
Siglo XX,
Country Teasers,
Soft Cell,
Donald Byrd,
The Sound,
Iggy Pop,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ultimate Spinach,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Babytalk,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Crash Course in Science,
Groovy Waters,
Ultravox,
Inner City,
Organ,
Neil Young,
Henry Cow,
Scion,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Blancmange,
DJ Sneak,
Mad Mike,
Visage,
Glambeats Corp.,
John Coltrane,
Nico,
The Dead C,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.