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 Georgia and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 La Düsseldorf 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '70s 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 Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Sight & Sound,
Shoche,
The Doors,
Mo-Dettes,
Bronski Beat,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ken Boothe,
Heaven 17,
The Remains,
Byron Stingily,
The Dead C,
Sandy B,
X-102,
Fad Gadget,
Icehouse,
Magazine,
The Zeros,
China Crisis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Dave Clark Five,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Count Five,
Aswad,
Ten City,
Ohio Players,
Harry Pussy,
The Blackbyrds,
Arab on Radar,
Man Parrish,
Ornette Coleman,
Lungfish,
Urselle,
DNA,
The Invisible,
The Buckinghams,
Leonard Cohen,
Wire,
The Velvet Underground,
Colin Newman,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Neon Judgement,
Nirvana,
Chrome,
Reuben Wilson,
Infiniti,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bill Near,
June Days,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Masters at Work,
Monks,
Reagan Youth,
Slick Rick,
Procol Harum,
Black Sheep,
This Heat,
Dawn Penn,
The Victims,
Bang On A Can,
Rakim,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.