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 Samoa and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 David Bowie 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 Jerry's Kids to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Sun Ra,
Nick Fraelich,
Cluster,
a-ha,
The Gories,
The Monks,
Slave,
Sällskapet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Derrick Morgan,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Blake Baxter,
DJ Style,
Zapp,
X-101,
The Victims,
Scrapy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Goldenarms,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Don Cherry,
Sound Behaviour,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Swell Maps,
The Wake,
The Residents,
The Standells,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Neil Young,
Au Pairs,
Hasil Adkins,
the Fania All-Stars,
Siglo XX,
The Moody Blues,
Icehouse,
Ice-T,
Leonard Cohen,
The Searchers,
Deakin,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kaleidoscope,
The Gladiators,
Con Funk Shun,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pole,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Matthew Bourne,
Public Image Ltd.,
Curtis Mayfield,
Porter Ricks,
The Smoke,
Quantec,
Skaos,
The Mojo Men,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marvin Gaye,
Agent Orange,
Gong,
China Crisis,
Tropical Tobacco,
Yazoo,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
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.