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 Monaco and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Milan.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 Brass Construction to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Con Funk Shun,
Ponytail,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Deakin,
Joy Division,
PIL,
10cc,
Ohio Players,
The Skatalites,
Eric Dolphy,
Average White Band,
Yazoo,
Rakim,
Underground Resistance,
Babytalk,
Siglo XX,
Unwound,
Mantronix,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Delon & Dalcan,
Chris & Cosey,
Inner City,
Connie Case,
Rapeman,
The Birthday Party,
Scrapy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Cowsills,
The Gun Club,
Derrick Morgan,
Funky Four + One,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Barbara Tucker,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Glambeats Corp.,
Amon Düül,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Swans,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Terry Callier,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Eddi Front,
The Motions,
The Evens,
Depeche Mode,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gerry Rafferty,
Brick,
John Lydon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Janne Schatter,
A Certain Ratio,
X-102,
Japan,
Au Pairs,
Susan Cadogan,
Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen.
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.