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 the UAE and from Johannesburg.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Delta 5 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Robert Hood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Au Pairs,
Al Stewart,
Tomorrow,
Hot Snakes,
Silicon Teens,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marshall Jefferson,
Derrick May,
Sight & Sound,
Quadrant,
DJ Style,
Lucky Dragons,
The Gap Band,
the Association,
Neu!,
Moby Grape,
E-Dancer,
DNA,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Happenings,
Chrome,
The Gladiators,
Absolute Body Control,
Stereo Dub,
The Star Department,
Drexciya,
Oblivians,
Nils Olav,
Parry Music,
Buzzcocks,
Alphaville,
Byron Stingily,
Ronnie Foster,
Mo-Dettes,
Mantronix,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
LL Cool J,
Clear Light,
PIL,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Q and Not U,
Bronski Beat,
Peter & Gordon,
Jacques Brel,
Brick,
Bizarre Inc.,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Agitation Free,
The Sisters of Mercy,
John Holt,
Nico,
Jandek,
Newcleus,
Nick Fraelich,
The Selecter,
Rufus Thomas,
The Leaves,
The Sonics,
Isaac Hayes,
Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can.
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.