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 Comoros and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Sixth Finger to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wire,
This Heat,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grauzone,
Ohio Players,
New York Dolls,
Yazoo,
Los Fastidios,
Minutemen,
Nico,
Archie Shepp,
X-102,
Derrick May,
Accadde A,
Aswad,
Agitation Free,
Crooked Eye,
The Gories,
Deadbeat,
The Busters,
Brick,
Scratch Acid,
Rotary Connection,
Fluxion,
The Motions,
Arab on Radar,
The Skatalites,
Interpol,
Todd Rundgren,
Girls At Our Best!,
Godley & Creme,
Althea and Donna,
LL Cool J,
John Cale,
Minor Threat,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rakim,
Boredoms,
James Chance & The Contortions,
10cc,
Sparks,
Wings,
Kevin Saunderson,
Robert Wyatt,
Popol Vuh,
Ornette Coleman,
Barrington Levy,
The Count Five,
the Bar-Kays,
Gong,
Don Cherry,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fugazi,
Blancmange,
Negative Approach,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Buckinghams,
Urselle,
The Durutti Column,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.