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 Malawi and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Stockholm and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 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 Kings Of Tomorrow to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Crime,
Eve St. Jones,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Dead C,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Neil Young,
Drexciya,
Nils Olav,
The Sound,
Camouflage,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eli Mardock,
The Slackers,
cv313,
La Düsseldorf,
Fatback Band,
The Beau Brummels,
New York Dolls,
The Pretty Things,
Camberwell Now,
Moss Icon,
Eddi Front,
Erykah Badu,
Robert Wyatt,
Television,
Popol Vuh,
Dead Boys,
Sex Pistols,
The Victims,
Brand Nubian,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Oneida,
EPMD,
Tropical Tobacco,
Simply Red,
Rotary Connection,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Knickerbockers,
Goldenarms,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Cal Tjader,
Dennis Brown,
New Order,
Connie Case,
Babytalk,
Flamin' Groovies,
Public Image Ltd.,
Peter and Kerry,
The Zeros,
Skriet,
Blake Baxter,
Desert Stars,
Glenn Branca,
Joy Division,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.