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 Swaziland and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Negative Approach to the grime 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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Glenn Branca,
Nik Kershaw,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Guru Guru,
Public Enemy,
Davy DMX,
Whodini,
Sound Behaviour,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
John Lydon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The New Christs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Iggy Pop,
Audionom,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Duran Duran,
Eric B and Rakim,
The J.B.'s,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Smog,
Godley & Creme,
Tropical Tobacco,
Electric Prunes,
Delta 5,
The Fall,
The Standells,
Marvin Gaye,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Beau Brummels,
Ornette Coleman,
Faraquet,
Tres Demented,
Pharoah Sanders,
Black Pus,
Fugazi,
The Move,
a-ha,
Robert Hood,
Sandy B,
Colin Newman,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lindisfarne,
Lucky Dragons,
Siglo XX,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Yazoo,
The Mummies,
Eric Copeland,
Suicide,
Robert Wyatt,
Mandrill,
Groovy Waters,
Man Eating Sloth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Smiths,
The Sound,
Sparks,
Ten City,
Organ,
Fad Gadget,
Pierre Henry,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.