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 Haiti and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 Jakarta and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Holger Czukay 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 Fad Gadget to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Intrusion,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Altered Images,
The Dave Clark Five,
Warren Ellis,
Connie Case,
Ornette Coleman,
Hashim,
Moby Grape,
Boredoms,
The Gladiators,
Yazoo,
Minor Threat,
Absolute Body Control,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bobby Womack,
Tomorrow,
Agent Orange,
The Toasters,
Jerry's Kids,
The Busters,
Guru Guru,
Roger Hodgson,
John Foxx,
Archie Shepp,
John Coltrane,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Mojo Men,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Amazonics,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Isaac Hayes,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Happenings,
Erykah Badu,
Animal Collective,
Zapp,
The Smiths,
The Searchers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mad Mike,
Marcia Griffiths,
Tim Buckley,
Davy DMX,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
T. Rex,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gong,
AZ,
Supertramp,
Visage,
Kenny Larkin,
The Grass Roots,
Marvin Gaye,
Wolf Eyes,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.