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 Philippines and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 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 Eurythmics to the grunge 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 James White and The Blacks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Patti Smith,
Sugar Minott,
Godley & Creme,
The Electric Prunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oblivians,
Joy Division,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Derrick Morgan,
Fad Gadget,
Basic Channel,
Con Funk Shun,
Arcadia,
Arthur Verocai,
Loose Ends,
The Pop Group,
Bauhaus,
Vladislav Delay,
Symarip,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Blackbyrds,
Accadde A,
The Count Five,
Dual Sessions,
Eyeless In Gaza,
John Cale,
Suicide,
Hardrive,
the Normal,
Au Pairs,
Bang On A Can,
Ossler,
The Shadows of Knight,
Skriet,
Bill Near,
The Blues Magoos,
F. McDonald,
Flipper,
Vainqueur,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Unrelated Segments,
Grey Daturas,
Pierre Henry,
Funkadelic,
Chris & Cosey,
Supertramp,
Maurizio,
Andrew Hill,
the Fania All-Stars,
Todd Terry,
Fear,
Neil Young,
Lungfish,
Duran Duran,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Golliwogs,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.