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 Liberia and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 marimba 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 Quantec to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All the Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Josef K,
Simply Red,
The Golliwogs,
Can,
Pylon,
Amon Düül II,
Oneida,
The Electric Prunes,
Marcia Griffiths,
FM Einheit,
Marc Almond,
Intrusion,
Q65,
Basic Channel,
Henry Cow,
Ice-T,
the Association,
Von Mondo,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ornette Coleman,
The Dave Clark Five,
Alice Coltrane,
Albert Ayler,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Donny Hathaway,
The Fire Engines,
Charles Mingus,
The Misunderstood,
Roxy Music,
Archie Shepp,
The Cure,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
AZ,
Cheater Slicks,
Iggy Pop,
Deadbeat,
Flipper,
The Litter,
Skarface,
Jacques Brel,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Gladiators,
Camouflage,
Model 500,
Rhythm & Sound,
June of 44,
Minutemen,
Idris Muhammad,
Gabor Szabo,
Yusef Lateef,
The Fortunes,
The Real Kids,
Yellowson,
Rekid,
Gang of Four,
The Count Five,
Anakelly,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.