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 Maldives and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 guitar 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 Connie Case to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
The Gladiators,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Monks,
The Cowsills,
Barry Ungar,
Newcleus,
Tommy Roe,
Make Up,
Iggy Pop,
Black Sheep,
Lungfish,
Gastr Del Sol,
Maleditus Sound,
Faust,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Franke,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Soul Sonic Force,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Roxy Music,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sugar Minott,
The Searchers,
Eric Dolphy,
The Real Kids,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kaleidoscope,
The Evens,
Sight & Sound,
Kerri Chandler,
Ponytail,
Brothers Johnson,
E-Dancer,
Tomorrow,
Black Moon,
Robert Wyatt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Qualms,
Camouflage,
The Happenings,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Slackers,
Faraquet,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Hot Snakes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
FM Einheit,
Graham Central Station,
Minnie Riperton,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Mr. Review,
Cluster,
New York Dolls,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Skriet,
The Smiths,
48th St. Collective,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.