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 Saudi Arabia and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Roy Ayers to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Patti Smith. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
Television Personalities,
The Divine Comedy,
Rosa Yemen,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Idris Muhammad,
Gerry Rafferty,
EPMD,
Roy Ayers,
D'Angelo,
Spoonie Gee,
Cecil Taylor,
Intrusion,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Liliput,
Susan Cadogan,
Roger Hodgson,
Technova,
David Axelrod,
Livin' Joy,
Quando Quango,
The Blues Magoos,
Smog,
Sällskapet,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Motorama,
Aural Exciters,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Archie Shepp,
John Coltrane,
Panda Bear,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
K-Klass,
Magma,
The Associates,
the Germs,
The Pretty Things,
The Remains,
The Red Krayola,
Black Sheep,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Little Man,
Supertramp,
Scan 7,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Isaac Hayes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Trumans Water,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Fuzztones,
New Order,
Erasure,
Jeff Lynne,
The Kinks,
Nas,
The Raincoats,
The Leaves,
The Durutti Column,
Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks.
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.