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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 T.S.O.L. 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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
The Cure,
Freddie Wadling,
E-Dancer,
Rapeman,
Ossler,
The Techniques,
Altered Images,
The Dirtbombs,
Boredoms,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
LL Cool J,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Coltrane,
Gang Green,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Move,
Marmalade,
Andrew Hill,
Wire,
Wally Richardson,
The Pop Group,
Malaria!,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fluxion,
Mo-Dettes,
Quantec,
ABBA,
Pharoah Sanders,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Harry Pussy,
Vainqueur,
X-102,
Ornette Coleman,
Pulsallama,
Boogie Down Productions,
James White and The Blacks,
K-Klass,
Negative Approach,
Deadbeat,
Masters at Work,
Little Man,
Yazoo,
The New Christs,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Zeros,
Bob Dylan,
Symarip,
Das Ding,
Arab on Radar,
The Evens,
Adolescents,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Thompson Twins,
Spandau Ballet,
Jawbox,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sugar Minott,
John Cale,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Morten Harket,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.