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 Botswana and from Copenhagen.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 synthesizer 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 ABC to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
48th St. Collective,
Boogie Down Productions,
It's A Beautiful Day,
U.S. Maple,
Ponytail,
David Axelrod,
Matthew Bourne,
Archie Shepp,
Porter Ricks,
Technova,
The Invisible,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Yusef Lateef,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Soft Cell,
Gang Green,
Silicon Teens,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Tom Boy,
Bad Manners,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Grauzone,
PIL,
Swans,
Blake Baxter,
Monolake,
Minutemen,
Basic Channel,
Half Japanese,
Fela Kuti,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Boz Scaggs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Stooges,
Joey Negro,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Chrome,
Jeff Mills,
Letta Mbulu,
Visage,
Can,
Franke,
Oblivians,
Tommy Roe,
The Fire Engines,
The Standells,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eve St. Jones,
Bauhaus,
Aswad,
Judy Mowatt,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jesper Dahlback,
Harmonia,
Parry Music,
Roger Hodgson,
Sam Rivers,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.