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 Ukraine and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Spandau Ballet to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Sonic Youth,
Archie Shepp,
Althea and Donna,
Piero Umiliani,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tubeway Army,
Aural Exciters,
Yusef Lateef,
Tim Buckley,
John Foxx,
Quantec,
The Electric Prunes,
John Lydon,
Masters at Work,
Bobby Sherman,
Soulsonic Force,
T. Rex,
Marshall Jefferson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Gun Club,
Scratch Acid,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Derrick Morgan,
Charles Mingus,
Crash Course in Science,
the Germs,
Bobby Womack,
Darondo,
Bobby Hutcherson,
OOIOO,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Fall,
The Last Poets,
Rekid,
Slick Rick,
Bush Tetras,
Mars,
The Mojo Men,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sparks,
MC5,
Flash Fearless,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Donald Byrd,
The Busters,
Hardrive,
Barrington Levy,
Yazoo,
David McCallum,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Henry Cow,
Mandrill,
E-Dancer,
New York Dolls,
Au Pairs,
Slave,
Index,
Grey Daturas,
Dave Gahan,
Pantaleimon,
Gabor Szabo,
Junior Murvin,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.