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 Cape Verde and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 synthesizer 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
The Pop Group,
Slave,
Altered Images,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Spoonie Gee,
The Human League,
Reuben Wilson,
T.S.O.L.,
Slick Rick,
Derrick Morgan,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jacob Miller,
Easy Going,
Marc Almond,
Deadbeat,
EPMD,
The Electric Prunes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lyres,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sparks,
Marcia Griffiths,
Drexciya,
Lower 48,
Johnny Osbourne,
Trumans Water,
Goldenarms,
Roxette,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Red Krayola,
Little Man,
kango's stein massive,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sarah Menescal,
Dual Sessions,
Deakin,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Neu!,
Supertramp,
Pharoah Sanders,
Simply Red,
Sam Rivers,
Banda Bassotti,
Man Parrish,
Isaac Hayes,
Wolf Eyes,
Thompson Twins,
Howard Jones,
Nation of Ulysses,
Faraquet,
Scientists,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Warren Ellis,
Spandau Ballet,
Zero Boys,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Public Enemy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.