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 Belgium and from Madrid.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 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 Anakelly to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Amon Düül II,
The Remains,
The Doors,
Cecil Taylor,
Deakin,
Gregory Isaacs,
Blancmange,
Adolescents,
Buzzcocks,
The Techniques,
Kaleidoscope,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Beau Brummels,
cv313,
The Walker Brothers,
Sällskapet,
Interpol,
Public Image Ltd.,
DNA,
One Last Wish,
The Buckinghams,
Lightning Bolt,
Dorothy Ashby,
Morten Harket,
June Days,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Smog,
Flash Fearless,
D'Angelo,
Kerrie Biddell,
Danielle Patucci,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Icehouse,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Massinfluence,
Delta 5,
Connie Case,
Symarip,
Bob Dylan,
The Raincoats,
Thompson Twins,
T. Rex,
Bobby Byrd,
China Crisis,
the Fania All-Stars,
Yusef Lateef,
Scott Walker,
Nirvana,
Marmalade,
The Happenings,
Black Bananas,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Vainqueur,
Michelle Simonal,
Donald Byrd,
Colin Newman,
E-Dancer,
Sugar Minott,
Joensuu 1685,
New Age Steppers,
Mo-Dettes,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.