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 Nicaragua and from Copenhagen.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 808 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 Mad Mike to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Carl Craig,
Blake Baxter,
Popol Vuh,
Derrick Morgan,
The Real Kids,
Gastr Del Sol,
Davy DMX,
Amon Düül,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ituana,
David McCallum,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Young Marble Giants,
Spoonie Gee,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Toasters,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Stooges,
Infiniti,
Isaac Hayes,
Scrapy,
Thompson Twins,
The Tremeloes,
Eric Copeland,
The Beau Brummels,
Shuggie Otis,
Desert Stars,
Outsiders,
June Days,
Rhythm & Sound,
Steve Hackett,
Franke,
The Fortunes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Parry Music,
Vainqueur,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Throbbing Gristle,
Joe Finger,
Pantaleimon,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Matthew Bourne,
Fear,
Banda Bassotti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yaz,
The Moleskins,
Bronski Beat,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Joy Division,
Gichy Dan,
Unrelated Segments,
Crooked Eye,
Todd Rundgren,
Pulsallama,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-102,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.