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 Serbia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Bobby Womack to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
The Velvet Underground,
The Barracudas,
Aural Exciters,
Faraquet,
Terry Callier,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Bananas,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Qualms,
China Crisis,
Bizarre Inc.,
Althea and Donna,
Monks,
The Doors,
Dorothy Ashby,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Steve Hackett,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Babytalk,
Silicon Teens,
This Heat,
Echospace,
Livin' Joy,
The Cure,
Sandy B,
The Black Dice,
Cymande,
Radiohead,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gang Green,
Mars,
Aloha Tigers,
Brand Nubian,
Barclay James Harvest,
Con Funk Shun,
Porter Ricks,
Masters at Work,
Ken Boothe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Deakin,
Gregory Isaacs,
D'Angelo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fear,
Whodini,
The Searchers,
The Stooges,
Simply Red,
Infiniti,
The Fugs,
Slave,
Scan 7,
Donny Hathaway,
Schoolly D,
Andrew Hill,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rakim,
Panda Bear,
Urselle,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.