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 Uzbekistan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Neon Judgement to the funk 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Visage,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faust,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Piero Umiliani,
Lucky Dragons,
Laurel Aitken,
L. Decosne,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Babytalk,
Fat Boys,
The Gun Club,
The Durutti Column,
The Walker Brothers,
Main Source,
Deepchord,
Grauzone,
Blake Baxter,
The Barracudas,
Soft Cell,
Bobby Womack,
Derrick Morgan,
The Seeds,
Chrome,
AZ,
The Invisible,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dead Boys,
The Last Poets,
U.S. Maple,
Bobby Byrd,
Gil Scott Heron,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Procol Harum,
Kenny Larkin,
Unwound,
Pagans,
Infiniti,
Sun City Girls,
The Velvet Underground,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Fire Engines,
The Wake,
Charles Mingus,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Liliput,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Minnie Riperton,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Schoolly D,
Fugazi,
The Blackbyrds,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sight & Sound,
The Selecter,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
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.