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 Chad and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 New York and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Monks to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masters at Work record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Brick,
The Motions,
New Age Steppers,
Piero Umiliani,
Steve Hackett,
Godley & Creme,
Minor Threat,
Chris Corsano,
Zapp,
Quando Quango,
Maurizio,
The Victims,
Blossom Toes,
James White and The Blacks,
Hashim,
Lou Christie,
Agent Orange,
Make Up,
Q and Not U,
Icehouse,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Suburban Knight,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lower 48,
Wasted Youth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Association,
Minny Pops,
Brand Nubian,
Fluxion,
Boredoms,
Donald Byrd,
JFA,
Connie Case,
Dave Gahan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pet Shop Boys,
Howard Jones,
The Doors,
The Monochrome Set,
Althea and Donna,
Kevin Saunderson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gregory Isaacs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Stiv Bators,
Patti Smith,
The Buckinghams,
Faraquet,
Y Pants,
Model 500,
Los Fastidios,
The American Breed,
Cal Tjader,
DJ Style,
Agitation Free,
Sarah Menescal,
Prince Buster,
Robert Görl,
The Gories,
the Fania All-Stars,
Big Daddy Kane,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.