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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 snare 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 cv313 to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Clear Light,
The Seeds,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Invisible,
U.S. Maple,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Funky Four + One,
Sam Rivers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
One Last Wish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Echospace,
X-102,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Misunderstood,
Flamin' Groovies,
Mantronix,
New Order,
Juan Atkins,
John Cale,
In Retrospect,
Junior Murvin,
Swans,
Idris Muhammad,
Blancmange,
Sarah Menescal,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ronnie Foster,
Tommy Roe,
The Black Dice,
Icehouse,
Mo-Dettes,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Skarface,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Max Romeo,
Michelle Simonal,
Groovy Waters,
Vainqueur,
Oneida,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Organ,
Jeff Lynne,
Roy Ayers,
DJ Sneak,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kurtis Blow,
Sight & Sound,
Nation of Ulysses,
Janne Schatter,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ohio Players,
Niagra,
Kayak,
The Mummies,
Minutemen,
Tubeway Army,
Brick,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.