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 Armenia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Ten City to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Golliwogs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
PIL,
Matthew Halsall,
Derrick Morgan,
Motorama,
Gang Gang Dance,
Yazoo,
Buzzcocks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ossler,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eli Mardock,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Skatalites,
Crispy Ambulance,
AZ,
Mary Jane Girls,
Wolf Eyes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
New Order,
Gang Starr,
Eve St. Jones,
The Motions,
Junior Murvin,
Grauzone,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dark Day,
Laurel Aitken,
Rekid,
Nico,
Mars,
The Gun Club,
Faraquet,
Man Parrish,
Kayak,
DNA,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Anthony Braxton,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Unwound,
Average White Band,
the Soft Cell,
One Last Wish,
Jacob Miller,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Robert Wyatt,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eden Ahbez,
Babytalk,
Boz Scaggs,
10cc,
Jerry's Kids,
Franke,
Crooked Eye,
Visage,
Flipper,
Silicon Teens,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.