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 Azerbaijan and from Columbus.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 rhodes 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 Hardrive to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Chris Corsano,
Wings,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Angels of Light,
10cc,
The Techniques,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fugazi,
The Fire Engines,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Golliwogs,
Be Bop Deluxe,
China Crisis,
Michelle Simonal,
Anthony Braxton,
Arcadia,
Thompson Twins,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Stooges,
Fat Boys,
the Germs,
Lucky Dragons,
Eden Ahbez,
Tres Demented,
The Human League,
Sam Rivers,
Negative Approach,
The Cure,
Mo-Dettes,
Maleditus Sound,
Barry Ungar,
Gang Green,
The Dirtbombs,
Bronski Beat,
Crash Course in Science,
Lower 48,
These Immortal Souls,
Mark Hollis,
OOIOO,
Half Japanese,
Oneida,
Flash Fearless,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Wally Richardson,
Pere Ubu,
Letta Mbulu,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Minnie Riperton,
Barbara Tucker,
The Cowsills,
AZ,
Smog,
UT,
Joey Negro,
Con Funk Shun,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.