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 Yemen and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 mellotron 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 Peter and Kerry to the rap 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 Byron Stingily. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
Thompson Twins,
The Zeros,
Avey Tare,
Audionom,
Sun City Girls,
Depeche Mode,
Grauzone,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Josef K,
MC5,
Livin' Joy,
H. Thieme,
Ohio Players,
The Gap Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Q and Not U,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Section 25,
Harmonia,
David McCallum,
Henry Cow,
Groovy Waters,
The Seeds,
PIL,
Toni Rubio,
Lucky Dragons,
Gabor Szabo,
Pussy Galore,
The Saints,
Gil Scott Heron,
Radio Birdman,
Sällskapet,
John Foxx,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ten City,
The Shadows of Knight,
Matthew Bourne,
Tom Boy,
Sarah Menescal,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Robert Hood,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Icehouse,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Desert Stars,
ABC,
Kurtis Blow,
The Velvet Underground,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
These Immortal Souls,
Kas Product,
Roxy Music,
Television,
Jimmy McGriff,
Crime,
Joe Smooth,
Nick Fraelich,
Joy Division,
Absolute Body Control,
Ken Boothe,
Massinfluence,
Piero Umiliani,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.