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 Korea South and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Woodstock.
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 harpsichord 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 jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Smiths. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Last Poets,
Joe Smooth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pantytec,
Ituana,
Joey Negro,
Soft Machine,
Pagans,
John Foxx,
cv313,
Shuggie Otis,
Nico,
Television Personalities,
Eden Ahbez,
Royal Trux,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Niagra,
Joe Finger,
Motorama,
Colin Newman,
Kerrie Biddell,
Robert Wyatt,
The Seeds,
The Techniques,
In Retrospect,
The Knickerbockers,
Matthew Halsall,
Yellowson,
Tim Buckley,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The New Christs,
the Soft Cell,
Lou Reed,
Sister Nancy,
Khruangbin,
Ludus,
Wally Richardson,
Anakelly,
Massinfluence,
The Grass Roots,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Minnie Riperton,
D'Angelo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lower 48,
Sällskapet,
The Mojo Men,
Con Funk Shun,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Black Dice,
The Index,
Amon Düül II,
The Birthday Party,
World's Most,
Crime,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Organ,
Groovy Waters,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rotary Connection,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.