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 Accra.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Japan to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
The Cramps,
Tomorrow,
Sexual Harrassment,
Agitation Free,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
AZ,
Pierre Henry,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Moebius,
Mission of Burma,
Porter Ricks,
The Tremeloes,
Negative Approach,
David Axelrod,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Model 500,
Wally Richardson,
Bluetip,
Hashim,
Sex Pistols,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Nils Olav,
Japan,
Dave Gahan,
Marvin Gaye,
Eric Copeland,
Aaron Thompson,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Section 25,
Minnie Riperton,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lee Hazlewood,
Barry Ungar,
Yazoo,
T.S.O.L.,
The American Breed,
New Age Steppers,
John Foxx,
The Selecter,
The Detroit Cobras,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mr. Review,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Connie Case,
David McCallum,
Erasure,
Faust,
Isaac Hayes,
DJ Style,
Massinfluence,
The Litter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Qualms,
Sparks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Alison Limerick,
Clear Light,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.