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 New Zealand and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 Kerri Chandler to the electroclash 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Men They Couldn't Hang record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Stooges,
The Sonics,
Marcia Griffiths,
Roxette,
The Young Rascals,
X-102,
Make Up,
Gregory Isaacs,
Babytalk,
Crime,
Drexciya,
The Wake,
The Motions,
Sandy B,
Barclay James Harvest,
Thompson Twins,
Eddi Front,
Ronnie Foster,
Mark Hollis,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Peter and Kerry,
Danielle Patucci,
Japan,
T.S.O.L.,
Con Funk Shun,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pantaleimon,
Infiniti,
Whodini,
Stereo Dub,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
the Bar-Kays,
Black Moon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Duran Duran,
Laurel Aitken,
Janne Schatter,
Graham Central Station,
ABBA,
Schoolly D,
Sound Behaviour,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jacob Miller,
Agent Orange,
Dennis Brown,
Lungfish,
Trumans Water,
Marine Girls,
John Foxx,
Easy Going,
Lou Christie,
Alice Coltrane,
The Monks,
The Fugs,
Dual Sessions,
In Retrospect,
The Music Machine,
Spoonie Gee,
Eden Ahbez,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.