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 India and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Icehouse to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Brand Nubian,
The Electric Prunes,
The Grass Roots,
Second Layer,
Dual Sessions,
Hoover,
Bobby Womack,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kaleidoscope,
In Retrospect,
Johnny Osbourne,
Das Ding,
The Moleskins,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nik Kershaw,
The Offenders,
The Blackbyrds,
Fat Boys,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Steve Hackett,
The Mummies,
Subhumans,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mo-Dettes,
Blancmange,
The Saints,
Soft Machine,
Arcadia,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ponytail,
K-Klass,
The Black Dice,
Glambeats Corp.,
Laurel Aitken,
Quantec,
Kevin Saunderson,
Basic Channel,
Erasure,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mission of Burma,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Television,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Howard Jones,
Sonic Youth,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ornette Coleman,
PIL,
Magazine,
Black Bananas,
Joey Negro,
Gichy Dan,
Stetsasonic,
The Buckinghams,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gong,
MC5,
Sister Nancy,
Bobby Byrd,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Piero Umiliani,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.