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 Iran and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare 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 CMW to the disco 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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All Severed Heads tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tears for Fears record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
Flash Fearless,
World's Most,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Happenings,
The Star Department,
Outsiders,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Skarface,
Joensuu 1685,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Soulsonic Force,
Prince Buster,
Harmonia,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Brass Construction,
Can,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Connie Case,
Peter & Gordon,
Spoonie Gee,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Wings,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bush Tetras,
Danielle Patucci,
The Modern Lovers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
La Düsseldorf,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
a-ha,
Zapp,
Mission of Burma,
Alphaville,
Rekid,
Fear,
Public Enemy,
Absolute Body Control,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Misunderstood,
Fluxion,
Ten City,
Leonard Cohen,
L. Decosne,
F. McDonald,
Roy Ayers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Mantronix,
The Slackers,
Swell Maps,
Ossler,
Flipper,
Joe Finger,
Mars,
Dark Day,
Scratch Acid,
Isaac Hayes,
K-Klass,
Derrick May,
Cluster,
Camberwell Now,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.