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 Paraguay and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Woodstock.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Marshall Jefferson to the punk 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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sound Behaviour,
the Association,
China Crisis,
Jeru the Damaja,
Fatback Band,
Sam Rivers,
Carl Craig,
Tim Buckley,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rosa Yemen,
Gang Gang Dance,
Banda Bassotti,
Surgeon,
Kaleidoscope,
Robert Wyatt,
the Human League,
Monolake,
Joy Division,
Leonard Cohen,
Dead Boys,
Soul II Soul,
Depeche Mode,
The Blackbyrds,
the Slits,
Tres Demented,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Joyce Sims,
Derrick Morgan,
Rites of Spring,
Albert Ayler,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mars,
Agitation Free,
Patti Smith,
Connie Case,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Marmalade,
Big Daddy Kane,
Reagan Youth,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Section 25,
Arcadia,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Leaves,
Niagra,
Little Man,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rapeman,
Josef K,
Sonic Youth,
Subhumans,
The Move,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Flag,
Eric Dolphy,
Japan,
Roy Ayers,
The Happenings,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.