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 Gambia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bologna.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 ABBA to the rap 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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
Kevin Saunderson,
Excepter,
Joy Division,
the Bar-Kays,
Buzzcocks,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ossler,
Ultravox,
Minny Pops,
Bill Wells,
The Five Americans,
Crime,
Electric Prunes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Zapp,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Cramps,
Ralphi Rosario,
Funky Four + One,
Cameo,
The Vogues,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Whodini,
Joey Negro,
Kerri Chandler,
Lalann,
Fluxion,
The Pretty Things,
Urselle,
the Sonics,
Ponytail,
Sonny Sharrock,
Roxy Music,
The Motions,
Erasure,
Porter Ricks,
Junior Murvin,
Black Flag,
In Retrospect,
Byron Stingily,
Lindisfarne,
Piero Umiliani,
Kayak,
Tropical Tobacco,
Country Teasers,
Tres Demented,
Scratch Acid,
L. Decosne,
Jacob Miller,
Ash Ra Tempel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Christie,
Matthew Halsall,
kango's stein massive,
Babytalk,
Flamin' Groovies,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minutemen,
The Divine Comedy,
Tears for Fears,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.