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 Samoa and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
Soft Cell,
E-Dancer,
In Retrospect,
Brand Nubian,
Infiniti,
Fad Gadget,
The Martian,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scott Walker,
Little Man,
Duran Duran,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moleskins,
Prince Buster,
Zero Boys,
Echospace,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Selecter,
Mantronix,
Crash Course in Science,
John Coltrane,
Danielle Patucci,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bronski Beat,
Cal Tjader,
The Mojo Men,
Swans,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rites of Spring,
Sister Nancy,
The Blues Magoos,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Amon Düül II,
Quando Quango,
Lower 48,
Grandmaster Flash,
Derrick Morgan,
The New Christs,
Q65,
Motorama,
Gerry Rafferty,
Andrew Hill,
The Star Department,
The Human League,
Terry Callier,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Brick,
Byron Stingily,
JFA,
Talk Talk,
Y Pants,
Surgeon,
Pantaleimon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Christie,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Dave Gahan,
Von Mondo,
Al Stewart,
Colin Newman,
Subhumans,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.