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 Singapore and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 sitar 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 The Gun Club to the rap 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 Ultimate Spinach. All the underground hits.
All Gregory Isaacs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
Hardrive,
Massinfluence,
Sällskapet,
E-Dancer,
David McCallum,
Archie Shepp,
Tubeway Army,
PIL,
The Leaves,
Ten City,
Blancmange,
Los Fastidios,
Rakim,
Lakeside,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Reagan Youth,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Cluster,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Fania All-Stars,
H. Thieme,
Boredoms,
Desert Stars,
the Human League,
Ossler,
Scott Walker,
Alice Coltrane,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Smiths,
Roxette,
Ronnie Foster,
Ronan,
Goldenarms,
John Foxx,
The Slits,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lou Christie,
Malaria!,
David Bowie,
Motorama,
Matthew Halsall,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Last Poets,
Gong,
Pantaleimon,
Ken Boothe,
Fat Boys,
Khruangbin,
The Modern Lovers,
Eurythmics,
David Axelrod,
Grandmaster Flash,
Amazonics,
Tomorrow,
Jacques Brel,
Stockholm Monsters,
Q and Not U,
Quadrant,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.