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 Chile and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manchester.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar 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 Erasure to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mad Mike,
Yaz,
Sight & Sound,
Andrew Hill,
Supertramp,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Pretty Things,
Ultra Naté,
Toni Rubio,
Amon Düül,
Young Marble Giants,
Ituana,
Half Japanese,
Arab on Radar,
The Cramps,
U.S. Maple,
Von Mondo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Michelle Simonal,
R.M.O.,
Little Man,
Spandau Ballet,
Wally Richardson,
Robert Hood,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Crispian St. Peters,
Black Bananas,
L. Decosne,
Sound Behaviour,
The Sonics,
Matthew Bourne,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Red Krayola,
Minutemen,
Flash Fearless,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Human League,
Quadrant,
CMW,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boredoms,
The Remains,
Hardrive,
Brand Nubian,
Pussy Galore,
Ultravox,
Danielle Patucci,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jandek,
Visage,
Grauzone,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dennis Brown,
Terry Callier,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Golliwogs,
Todd Terry,
Y Pants,
Anakelly,
The Martian,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.