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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ 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 Kurtis Blow to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
The Real Kids,
Circle Jerks,
The Cure,
Reuben Wilson,
Man Parrish,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Monks,
Flipper,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
OOIOO,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bill Wells,
Amazonics,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Skarface,
Bauhaus,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Alphaville,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bootsy Collins,
Amon Düül II,
Pantytec,
the Normal,
Sixth Finger,
A Certain Ratio,
JFA,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Busters,
Stockholm Monsters,
H. Thieme,
Tim Buckley,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Moleskins,
The Detroit Cobras,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Theoretical Girls,
Lalann,
Popol Vuh,
Ice-T,
The Fuzztones,
Japan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Marine Girls,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Barrington Levy,
Infiniti,
Das Ding,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Erasure,
The Smoke,
The Mojo Men,
Matthew Bourne,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.