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 Namibia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Manchester.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Alphaville to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tom Boy 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Eric Dolphy,
David Bowie,
Au Pairs,
Bang On A Can,
Tubeway Army,
Adolescents,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Q and Not U,
Country Joe & The Fish,
UT,
Banda Bassotti,
Average White Band,
Ultravox,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Velvet Underground,
Moss Icon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pantytec,
Symarip,
Aaron Thompson,
Blossom Toes,
DJ Style,
The Pretty Things,
Brothers Johnson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Quando Quango,
Organ,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Porter Ricks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Procol Harum,
Loose Ends,
The Moody Blues,
Sandy B,
Reuben Wilson,
Skriet,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sam Rivers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pagans,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Oneida,
New Age Steppers,
Blancmange,
Nas,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bad Manners,
Sex Pistols,
Rapeman,
X-Ray Spex,
Kaleidoscope,
Sound Behaviour,
Cymande,
Patti Smith,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Hasil Adkins,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.