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 Libya and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Chris & Cosey to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
Brothers Johnson,
Lakeside,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Saccharine Trust,
Zero Boys,
Sex Pistols,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dual Sessions,
The Dirtbombs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Piero Umiliani,
Ludus,
Agent Orange,
Erykah Badu,
Absolute Body Control,
La Düsseldorf,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Germs,
Stetsasonic,
The Knickerbockers,
This Heat,
Tubeway Army,
Agitation Free,
Marvin Gaye,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Boz Scaggs,
Andrew Hill,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Trojans,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ornette Coleman,
Warren Ellis,
Reuben Wilson,
the Swans,
The Divine Comedy,
New Order,
The Smoke,
Frankie Knuckles,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
H. Thieme,
Radiohead,
The Residents,
Niagra,
Second Layer,
Black Sheep,
The J.B.'s,
Chris & Cosey,
Marshall Jefferson,
Barry Ungar,
The Gap Band,
Loose Ends,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
FM Einheit,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Bourne,
The Wake,
Sparks,
Grey Daturas,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.