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 Azerbaijan and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Gap Band 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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
B.T. Express,
CMW,
Spandau Ballet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nick Fraelich,
Robert Hood,
Procol Harum,
Sun City Girls,
Cymande,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rhythm & Sound,
Curtis Mayfield,
New Age Steppers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The United States of America,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
This Heat,
Pere Ubu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gong,
Tim Buckley,
the Association,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lucky Dragons,
The Cure,
Clear Light,
Rotary Connection,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Count Five,
Radio Birdman,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Deadbeat,
Kaleidoscope,
Alton Ellis,
Erykah Badu,
Pagans,
Ultra Naté,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Yaz,
Ludus,
The Gap Band,
The Searchers,
MC5,
Animal Collective,
Dead Boys,
Don Cherry,
Tom Boy,
Josef K,
The Martian,
Cecil Taylor,
Ultravox,
Moby Grape,
Wally Richardson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Delta 5,
the Human League,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marvin Gaye,
Little Man,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Monochrome Set,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.