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 Japan and from Tokyo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Marc Almond to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Qualms,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eric Dolphy,
Juan Atkins,
Crispian St. Peters,
Oblivians,
Pantaleimon,
Slick Rick,
Animal Collective,
The Pretty Things,
China Crisis,
John Cale,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Deadbeat,
JFA,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Harry Pussy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sällskapet,
Minutemen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Robert Hood,
Model 500,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Derrick Morgan,
X-101,
The Index,
The Real Kids,
Guru Guru,
Isaac Hayes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Livin' Joy,
Tom Boy,
10cc,
Harmonia,
Half Japanese,
Ken Boothe,
One Last Wish,
Cluster,
Dawn Penn,
D'Angelo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ponytail,
Graham Central Station,
Don Cherry,
Man Parrish,
The Gap Band,
Kaleidoscope,
World's Most,
Deakin,
DJ Style,
Fear,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Country Teasers,
Bill Near,
Jawbox,
Erykah Badu,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bobby Sherman,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.