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 Ghana and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes 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 the Association 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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All The Flesh Eaters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bootsy Collins,
Quadrant,
Q and Not U,
Unrelated Segments,
Loose Ends,
Boredoms,
The Mojo Men,
Byron Stingily,
Stiv Bators,
The Dirtbombs,
Scion,
Oblivians,
Letta Mbulu,
UT,
Johnny Clarke,
The Mummies,
Simply Red,
Bronski Beat,
Andrew Hill,
Cymande,
The Litter,
Khruangbin,
Matthew Bourne,
Colin Newman,
LL Cool J,
Soulsonic Force,
Al Stewart,
Barry Ungar,
New Order,
Nik Kershaw,
Alison Limerick,
Fugazi,
Monolake,
DJ Style,
Pulsallama,
Danielle Patucci,
MDC,
The Raincoats,
Groovy Waters,
The Walker Brothers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Barrington Levy,
Lou Christie,
Matthew Halsall,
T. Rex,
This Heat,
Jeru the Damaja,
Buzzcocks,
Deadbeat,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Radio Birdman,
Panda Bear,
D'Angelo,
The Buckinghams,
Marine Girls,
The Techniques,
Mandrill,
the Slits,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Make Up,
Royal Trux,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.