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 Salvador.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare 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 Yusef Lateef to the funk 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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Nirvana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fat Boys 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
New York Dolls,
Joyce Sims,
Agitation Free,
Goldenarms,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kayak,
Pole,
Pierre Henry,
Babytalk,
Metal Thangz,
Franke,
Davy DMX,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Oblivians,
a-ha,
Radio Birdman,
Michelle Simonal,
The Fall,
Erykah Badu,
Black Sheep,
Lalo Schifrin,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Move,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bill Wells,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
LL Cool J,
MC5,
Negative Approach,
Unrelated Segments,
Roy Ayers,
Sun Ra,
Wolf Eyes,
Warren Ellis,
Jeff Mills,
Bobby Byrd,
Alice Coltrane,
Sugar Minott,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cymande,
Robert Görl,
Erasure,
The Modern Lovers,
Symarip,
Sound Behaviour,
Television,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jawbox,
Interpol,
The Fuzztones,
Icehouse,
Lyres,
Colin Newman,
Cluster,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Offenders,
Second Layer,
Stockholm Monsters,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.