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 Nepal and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 American Breed to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Make Up,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
LL Cool J,
Curtis Mayfield,
Cybotron,
Bob Dylan,
Cymande,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
K-Klass,
Von Mondo,
Flash Fearless,
Jacob Miller,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ken Boothe,
Deepchord,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pantytec,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rosa Yemen,
Alison Limerick,
Soft Cell,
Carl Craig,
Funkadelic,
Unrelated Segments,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Wings,
Kurtis Blow,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Remains,
The Fuzztones,
Mission of Burma,
The Zeros,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Nico,
Derrick Morgan,
Excepter,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lee Hazlewood,
Erasure,
Funky Four + One,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eric B and Rakim,
Chris Corsano,
The Seeds,
The Mojo Men,
Ten City,
Oblivians,
Boredoms,
Bootsy Collins,
JFA,
The Electric Prunes,
Eve St. Jones,
Khruangbin,
Gang Gang Dance,
Thompson Twins,
Zapp,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.