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 Nigeria and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 guitar 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 MDC to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
T. Rex,
DNA,
Matthew Halsall,
Moebius,
Bobby Byrd,
Country Teasers,
Ralphi Rosario,
Flash Fearless,
Index,
Dorothy Ashby,
Iggy Pop,
Gastr Del Sol,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Connie Case,
Unwound,
Au Pairs,
Public Enemy,
Jeff Lynne,
the Slits,
Alice Coltrane,
Al Stewart,
The Evens,
Trumans Water,
June Days,
Crash Course in Science,
Echospace,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sugar Minott,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sixth Finger,
The Skatalites,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ken Boothe,
KRS-One,
Alison Limerick,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fluxion,
The Moody Blues,
Warren Ellis,
Eurythmics,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Dirtbombs,
Robert Görl,
B.T. Express,
Y Pants,
Procol Harum,
Derrick May,
Glenn Branca,
Josef K,
Maleditus Sound,
Camouflage,
Rhythm & Sound,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cluster,
Ronan,
Suicide,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.