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 Korea North and from Cairo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 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 Black Flag to the funk 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 Pussy Galore. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Skaos,
The Searchers,
Accadde A,
Roy Ayers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kevin Saunderson,
Iggy Pop,
Glenn Branca,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arthur Verocai,
The Fugs,
Brand Nubian,
Alton Ellis,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Index,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Liliput,
Drexciya,
Main Source,
U.S. Maple,
Al Stewart,
Echospace,
Pole,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Royal Trux,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roger Hodgson,
OOIOO,
The Music Machine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Neon Judgement,
The Victims,
Idris Muhammad,
Bush Tetras,
Avey Tare,
Mr. Review,
Moss Icon,
Camouflage,
Peter and Kerry,
Niagra,
Moebius,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kayak,
L. Decosne,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ralphi Rosario,
Yazoo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dorothy Ashby,
Flamin' Groovies,
Arcadia,
Girls At Our Best!,
Das Ding,
Yaz,
Jerry Gold Smith,
kango's stein massive,
Johnny Osbourne,
Severed Heads,
Warren Ellis,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.