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 Brazil and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Soft Cell to the dance 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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Grandmaster Flash,
Robert Görl,
New York Dolls,
Sugar Minott,
The Walker Brothers,
Soulsonic Force,
Panda Bear,
Cameo,
Ludus,
The Music Machine,
The Fugs,
ABBA,
The Modern Lovers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
New Order,
kango's stein massive,
Radiohead,
Sun Ra,
Quando Quango,
B.T. Express,
Alice Coltrane,
Cluster,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Soul II Soul,
Jacob Miller,
Urselle,
Pantytec,
Marmalade,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rekid,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nik Kershaw,
Mission of Burma,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Peter & Gordon,
Roy Ayers,
Skarface,
The Fall,
Andrew Hill,
Saccharine Trust,
Deadbeat,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Guru Guru,
The Star Department,
Darondo,
Desert Stars,
Cal Tjader,
Piero Umiliani,
Althea and Donna,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eden Ahbez,
Skaos,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Slits,
Bush Tetras,
Lyres,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jesper Dahlback,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths.
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.