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 Botswana and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1984 at the first Arcadia 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 Erasure to the crunk 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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Anakelly,
Altered Images,
Al Stewart,
Glenn Branca,
Skriet,
Ultra Naté,
The Techniques,
Slick Rick,
Model 500,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gastr Del Sol,
Au Pairs,
Patti Smith,
The Dirtbombs,
Radiopuhelimet,
The New Christs,
The Flesh Eaters,
Public Image Ltd.,
Hashim,
Bill Wells,
Tomorrow,
Pantytec,
Black Moon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Skaos,
Masters at Work,
Andrew Hill,
Gang of Four,
The Zeros,
Ornette Coleman,
Soul Sonic Force,
Animal Collective,
the Fania All-Stars,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pantaleimon,
Sarah Menescal,
Peter and Kerry,
Index,
Peter & Gordon,
D'Angelo,
Hardrive,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Panda Bear,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jeru the Damaja,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Popol Vuh,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Drexciya,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Porter Ricks,
The Victims,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Toasters,
The Human League,
Urselle,
Lakeside,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.