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 Angola and from Sao Paulo.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Peter & Gordon to the jazz 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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masters at Work record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
Lower 48,
DNA,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Magma,
Hasil Adkins,
Nils Olav,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Yusef Lateef,
Ten City,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Divine Comedy,
Sun City Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Audionom,
Leonard Cohen,
Nico,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Prince Buster,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Das Ding,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Matthew Bourne,
Freddie Wadling,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kaleidoscope,
Rekid,
Anakelly,
The Selecter,
Faraquet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Toasters,
Accadde A,
Black Bananas,
Funkadelic,
Maleditus Sound,
Newcleus,
The Velvet Underground,
The Motions,
Michelle Simonal,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Skatalites,
Second Layer,
Tommy Roe,
Rufus Thomas,
the Germs,
Slave,
Terry Callier,
Robert Wyatt,
The Slackers,
Icehouse,
ABC,
Minutemen,
Young Marble Giants,
Flash Fearless,
Glambeats Corp.,
Motorama,
Talk Talk,
Girls At Our Best!,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.