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 Chile and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Black Flag to the dance 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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Matthew Bourne,
Gastr Del Sol,
Soft Cell,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ituana,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Piero Umiliani,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Stooges,
The Wake,
Radiopuhelimet,
Todd Rundgren,
Danielle Patucci,
Monolake,
Mr. Review,
Eric Copeland,
Au Pairs,
The Golliwogs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Theoretical Girls,
H. Thieme,
Scrapy,
Avey Tare,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Pretty Things,
The Velvet Underground,
Joey Negro,
Idris Muhammad,
The Angels of Light,
Letta Mbulu,
David Bowie,
Neil Young,
Eric Dolphy,
Pantaleimon,
Pulsallama,
JFA,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Nas,
Mars,
Roger Hodgson,
Pere Ubu,
These Immortal Souls,
The Happenings,
Massinfluence,
Rapeman,
Essential Logic,
Electric Prunes,
Graham Central Station,
Maleditus Sound,
Gang Green,
X-Ray Spex,
Trumans Water,
Todd Terry,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jimmy McGriff,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joe Smooth,
Loose Ends,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.