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 Uzbekistan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Skatalites to the electroclash 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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
Alton Ellis,
Brass Construction,
Andrew Hill,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kenny Larkin,
Q65,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
T. Rex,
Soulsonic Force,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marc Almond,
Letta Mbulu,
F. McDonald,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ohio Players,
Saccharine Trust,
ABBA,
Fugazi,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kevin Saunderson,
Supertramp,
Flipper,
The Standells,
Bob Dylan,
Jesper Dahlback,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lebanon Hanover,
World's Most,
Dead Boys,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bluetip,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kerrie Biddell,
Arthur Verocai,
Visage,
Sun City Girls,
Dorothy Ashby,
Minutemen,
Chris Corsano,
Robert Görl,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hasil Adkins,
R.M.O.,
Camberwell Now,
Isaac Hayes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gong,
Ken Boothe,
One Last Wish,
Lou Christie,
Pagans,
Agent Orange,
Rhythm & Sound,
Whodini,
Ten City,
Slave,
Duran Duran,
Gregory Isaacs,
Colin Newman,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.