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 Switzerland and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Philadelphia.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the rock 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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Throbbing Gristle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
Alice Coltrane,
Trumans Water,
Camberwell Now,
Heaven 17,
JFA,
Sonny Sharrock,
Silicon Teens,
Byron Stingily,
Jeru the Damaja,
Hasil Adkins,
Amon Düül,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Amazonics,
Animal Collective,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Aswad,
Hashim,
Groovy Waters,
Marc Almond,
MDC,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Cowsills,
Lindisfarne,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Subhumans,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Arthur Verocai,
Von Mondo,
Livin' Joy,
Rufus Thomas,
Funky Four + One,
Q65,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Minor Threat,
U.S. Maple,
Joyce Sims,
Todd Rundgren,
Joe Smooth,
Hot Snakes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jacques Brel,
The Moody Blues,
Gabor Szabo,
The Human League,
Mo-Dettes,
Neil Young,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Television Personalities,
Oblivians,
Scott Walker,
Sonic Youth,
The Martian,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Yusef Lateef,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Au Pairs,
Massinfluence,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.