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 Iraq and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Arab on Radar to the funk 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 The Dirtbombs. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Flash Fearless,
Skarface,
Radiohead,
Von Mondo,
Monolake,
Theoretical Girls,
The Divine Comedy,
Cluster,
cv313,
Dave Gahan,
Unrelated Segments,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Simply Red,
Sällskapet,
Matthew Halsall,
Black Sheep,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Fortunes,
Dual Sessions,
Soulsonic Force,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fluxion,
Brand Nubian,
The Human League,
Ornette Coleman,
Scrapy,
Boredoms,
Davy DMX,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
John Cale,
Suicide,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lalo Schifrin,
Hasil Adkins,
Gang of Four,
Althea and Donna,
Aaron Thompson,
Make Up,
The Seeds,
Minny Pops,
Junior Murvin,
UT,
Al Stewart,
The Misunderstood,
Amon Düül II,
James White and The Blacks,
Scratch Acid,
Siglo XX,
Drive Like Jehu,
Qualms,
Malaria!,
DJ Sneak,
Lebanon Hanover,
World's Most,
Derrick Morgan,
T.S.O.L.,
Gastr Del Sol,
Can,
Outsiders,
Vainqueur,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.