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 Zimbabwe and from Shanghai.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Beijing.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Cecil Taylor to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions 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 Sun City Girls 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?
Moebius,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Teasers,
MDC,
Bluetip,
Joyce Sims,
Trumans Water,
Camberwell Now,
The Buckinghams,
Reagan Youth,
Mo-Dettes,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sight & Sound,
Grey Daturas,
Tomorrow,
Piero Umiliani,
The Index,
Althea and Donna,
Bobby Byrd,
Glambeats Corp.,
FM Einheit,
Terry Callier,
Aswad,
The Busters,
Zapp,
The Zeros,
Mark Hollis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Malaria!,
World's Most,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Fire Engines,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Soft Cell,
The Victims,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sun Ra,
Soft Machine,
AZ,
Erykah Badu,
Flipper,
Iggy Pop,
Au Pairs,
The Walker Brothers,
Steve Hackett,
the Fania All-Stars,
John Foxx,
Rosa Yemen,
Swell Maps,
Sparks,
Archie Shepp,
Zero Boys,
the Sonics,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
cv313,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Soft Cell,
Anakelly,
Rufus Thomas,
Scan 7,
Infiniti,
Von Mondo,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.