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 Paraguay and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Toronto.
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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe 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 Reagan Youth to the funk 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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Throbbing Gristle,
Reagan Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ralphi Rosario,
X-Ray Spex,
New Order,
Sun City Girls,
Ken Boothe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yaz,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Zeros,
Lee Hazlewood,
Wire,
Scott Walker,
The Electric Prunes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lucky Dragons,
Theoretical Girls,
Agent Orange,
Parry Music,
Jerry's Kids,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Cowsills,
Visage,
Gang of Four,
Ultra Naté,
Excepter,
The Young Rascals,
Alison Limerick,
Fat Boys,
Silicon Teens,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Slits,
The Saints,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Hardrive,
Roger Hodgson,
Average White Band,
Letta Mbulu,
Pulsallama,
Von Mondo,
the Sonics,
The Martian,
Archie Shepp,
Schoolly D,
Ten City,
Bobby Womack,
Fela Kuti,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Thompson Twins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
New York Dolls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Barrington Levy,
The Gun Club,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Motions,
Juan Atkins,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.