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 Equatorial Guinea and from Woodstock.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Saccharine Trust to the punk 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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Alton Ellis,
Audionom,
The Shadows of Knight,
John Foxx,
EPMD,
Groovy Waters,
The Star Department,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Agent Orange,
The Trojans,
Pantytec,
Lower 48,
Soulsonic Force,
Mr. Review,
Au Pairs,
Fatback Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Mo-Dettes,
Todd Terry,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Doobie Brothers,
Roxy Music,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Brand Nubian,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cymande,
Erykah Badu,
The Techniques,
Aural Exciters,
The Cramps,
Minor Threat,
Babytalk,
Loose Ends,
Scion,
The Evens,
The Neon Judgement,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Offenders,
Soft Machine,
The Cure,
David Axelrod,
Vainqueur,
Simply Red,
Eden Ahbez,
Inner City,
Young Marble Giants,
Lightning Bolt,
Unwound,
Soft Cell,
Drive Like Jehu,
Severed Heads,
John Coltrane,
Cameo,
Dead Boys,
the Bar-Kays,
Judy Mowatt,
The Index,
Junior Murvin,
The Gap Band,
The Dead C,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.