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 South Africa and from Edmonton.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Icehouse to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Sixth Finger,
MDC,
Chris & Cosey,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Warren Ellis,
Neil Young,
Aswad,
Archie Shepp,
Metal Thangz,
The Names,
The Electric Prunes,
Ituana,
Saccharine Trust,
Kayak,
Al Stewart,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Toasters,
Isaac Hayes,
R.M.O.,
Circle Jerks,
Lower 48,
Arthur Verocai,
Cecil Taylor,
Accadde A,
Surgeon,
The Birthday Party,
Shoche,
Lebanon Hanover,
Oneida,
Agent Orange,
The Golliwogs,
The Fall,
Jesper Dahlback,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Five Americans,
Black Bananas,
Boogie Down Productions,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
DNA,
Depeche Mode,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
In Retrospect,
Yazoo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Eric Copeland,
Rotary Connection,
Chris Corsano,
Blancmange,
Robert Wyatt,
Gichy Dan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sun Ra,
Prince Buster,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Juan Atkins,
Byron Stingily,
The Angels of Light,
The Shadows of Knight,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.