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 Philippines and from Mumbai.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Ornette Coleman to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Erasure,
AZ,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
David McCallum,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Blues Magoos,
The Buckinghams,
Delta 5,
Lou Reed,
Monks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lalo Schifrin,
Soft Machine,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gastr Del Sol,
Alphaville,
The Durutti Column,
Yellowson,
Black Moon,
Slick Rick,
Main Source,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Quantec,
Faust,
Sun Ra,
Japan,
Joyce Sims,
The Vogues,
Sparks,
Siglo XX,
Bobby Sherman,
Circle Jerks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Roxy Music,
Unrelated Segments,
Jacques Brel,
Rod Modell,
KRS-One,
Television,
Quando Quango,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Toasters,
The Mojo Men,
Aswad,
Suicide,
The Index,
Brass Construction,
Mark Hollis,
Lower 48,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Procol Harum,
Flamin' Groovies,
Roy Ayers,
The Evens,
Simply Red,
David Axelrod,
New York Dolls,
Crooked Eye,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fall,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.