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 Mexico and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Kinks 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 The Cure. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Barbara Tucker,
Jeff Mills,
New Order,
Lightning Bolt,
Tomorrow,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Monks,
Connie Case,
Cheater Slicks,
Smog,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pantytec,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Althea and Donna,
Ohio Players,
Yazoo,
Isaac Hayes,
Section 25,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lou Christie,
Gerry Rafferty,
Essential Logic,
Liliput,
Camouflage,
Amazonics,
Terry Callier,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Theoretical Girls,
The Angels of Light,
Derrick Morgan,
Nation of Ulysses,
Flipper,
Vainqueur,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Urselle,
Todd Rundgren,
Nick Fraelich,
Gregory Isaacs,
Negative Approach,
Royal Trux,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Martian,
Terrestrial Tones,
Tubeway Army,
Ituana,
kango's stein massive,
The Pop Group,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bauhaus,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Swans,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Grass Roots,
Pere Ubu,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bootsy Collins,
Roger Hodgson,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.