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 Croatia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Alice Coltrane,
Tears for Fears,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
UT,
Big Daddy Kane,
kango's stein massive,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rotary Connection,
EPMD,
Soul II Soul,
Altered Images,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Main Source,
Quantec,
Technova,
Rhythm & Sound,
Wasted Youth,
Saccharine Trust,
The Cramps,
Joe Smooth,
Sugar Minott,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Gap Band,
Mary Jane Girls,
Symarip,
Fatback Band,
Subhumans,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Human League,
Make Up,
Joey Negro,
Robert Hood,
Bobby Hutcherson,
China Crisis,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ohio Players,
Amon Düül,
Eve St. Jones,
MDC,
The Music Machine,
Alton Ellis,
Lower 48,
Thee Headcoats,
Fluxion,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ronnie Foster,
Agent Orange,
Gang of Four,
Henry Cow,
New Order,
Babytalk,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Moleskins,
Magma,
The Residents,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The United States of America,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.