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 Thailand and from Sao Paulo.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Jerry's Kids to the dance 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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Johnny Osbourne,
The American Breed,
Sonic Youth,
Dave Gahan,
R.M.O.,
Los Fastidios,
The Grass Roots,
The Motions,
Scion,
K-Klass,
Nik Kershaw,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Godley & Creme,
Metal Thangz,
Erasure,
Infiniti,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Unwound,
Lalann,
Wasted Youth,
Charles Mingus,
Vainqueur,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Roxy Music,
Marcia Griffiths,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ituana,
David McCallum,
Massinfluence,
Radio Birdman,
The Moleskins,
KRS-One,
This Heat,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Star Department,
Michelle Simonal,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dual Sessions,
Pantaleimon,
Soulsonic Force,
The Monochrome Set,
Barrington Levy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tubeway Army,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
June Days,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Anthony Braxton,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Deadbeat,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Remains,
Hasil Adkins,
The Associates,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.