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 Brunei and from Bologna.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Schoolly D to the jazz 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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
The Pop Group,
Visage,
Moby Grape,
Mo-Dettes,
The Barracudas,
Derrick Morgan,
Joey Negro,
Sun City Girls,
Supertramp,
Clear Light,
Black Moon,
The Associates,
Swell Maps,
FM Einheit,
Danielle Patucci,
Eurythmics,
Electric Prunes,
UT,
Lyres,
Eden Ahbez,
The Misunderstood,
In Retrospect,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Simply Red,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tomorrow,
Cheater Slicks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pole,
David Axelrod,
Von Mondo,
Suicide,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Robert Hood,
CMW,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pylon,
Underground Resistance,
Arcadia,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amon Düül,
Tom Boy,
Piero Umiliani,
Susan Cadogan,
Iggy Pop,
Chris Corsano,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ituana,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Surgeon,
Jawbox,
Eve St. Jones,
Talk Talk,
Crispian St. Peters,
Flash Fearless,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ponytail,
Bill Near,
Crime,
Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke.
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.