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 Jordan and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
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 Erasure to the rap 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 Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Gap Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sexual Harrassment,
Nico,
Sun City Girls,
Marcia Griffiths,
Terry Callier,
Average White Band,
Pantytec,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Cure,
Maleditus Sound,
Roger Hodgson,
Byron Stingily,
The Remains,
Procol Harum,
Lower 48,
The Monochrome Set,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Cluster,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pole,
Derrick Morgan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Glenn Branca,
The Moleskins,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
John Coltrane,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tommy Roe,
Howard Jones,
Adolescents,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Todd Rundgren,
The Modern Lovers,
The Blackbyrds,
Urselle,
Steve Hackett,
Visage,
Pagans,
The Tremeloes,
Au Pairs,
Carl Craig,
Ronan,
Leonard Cohen,
Symarip,
June of 44,
Saccharine Trust,
Archie Shepp,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bill Near,
John Lydon,
The Alarm Clocks,
Patti Smith,
Groovy Waters,
Wire,
Derrick May,
Electric Prunes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.