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 Tunisia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Suicide to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All T.S.O.L. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Symarip 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Crash Course in Science,
Janne Schatter,
JFA,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joy Division,
Bill Near,
Alton Ellis,
Maurizio,
The Gap Band,
The Skatalites,
LL Cool J,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Angels of Light,
Eli Mardock,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Standells,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Busters,
Heaven 17,
Motorama,
Nik Kershaw,
Talk Talk,
Television Personalities,
The Durutti Column,
Ossler,
Gabor Szabo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Michelle Simonal,
Jeff Mills,
Lou Christie,
X-102,
Sam Rivers,
Fad Gadget,
Stetsasonic,
Cecil Taylor,
Newcleus,
Soft Machine,
Pet Shop Boys,
Brass Construction,
The Martian,
Monolake,
Moss Icon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Slick Rick,
Thompson Twins,
Joensuu 1685,
Desert Stars,
The Fire Engines,
Moby Grape,
Gregory Isaacs,
Roxy Music,
Nick Fraelich,
Matthew Bourne,
The Modern Lovers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Niagra,
Neil Young,
The Dave Clark Five,
Scion,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks.
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.