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 Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Derrick May to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pulsallama,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kerrie Biddell,
Chris Corsano,
The Motions,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Fuzztones,
Marcia Griffiths,
Dark Day,
F. McDonald,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lou Christie,
The Sonics,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
a-ha,
Joe Finger,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Nik Kershaw,
Idris Muhammad,
The Busters,
David McCallum,
Rapeman,
Graham Central Station,
X-101,
Connie Case,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Human League,
Smog,
Throbbing Gristle,
Brass Construction,
Max Romeo,
Boz Scaggs,
Quadrant,
The Moody Blues,
Buzzcocks,
Bluetip,
The Fugs,
Lucky Dragons,
The Kinks,
ABC,
Von Mondo,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Erasure,
48th St. Collective,
Vladislav Delay,
Monks,
Nico,
Ultimate Spinach,
David Bowie,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Happenings,
Sällskapet,
Don Cherry,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Half Japanese,
Porter Ricks,
Minor Threat,
Royal Trux,
D'Angelo,
Hoover,
The Tremeloes,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.