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 Bulgaria and from Paris.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fear to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Ajijia Myrayebe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
a-ha,
The Evens,
The Count Five,
Byron Stingily,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gong,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Andrew Hill,
China Crisis,
A Certain Ratio,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bobby Womack,
David McCallum,
Niagra,
Bang On A Can,
Quando Quango,
Ken Boothe,
Black Sheep,
Scan 7,
Bizarre Inc.,
Flipper,
James White and The Blacks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jeff Lynne,
Sandy B,
Drive Like Jehu,
MC5,
Severed Heads,
Moss Icon,
Animal Collective,
Babytalk,
CMW,
PIL,
The Cramps,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
LL Cool J,
Sun Ra,
Oneida,
Rufus Thomas,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Hashim,
Hasil Adkins,
Soulsonic Force,
Rites of Spring,
Nick Fraelich,
Rekid,
Ralphi Rosario,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dave Gahan,
Los Fastidios,
The Smiths,
The Detroit Cobras,
Talk Talk,
Quantec,
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.