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 Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Copenhagen.
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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
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 Roy Ayers to the dance 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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
Bill Wells,
Grandmaster Flash,
Warsaw,
Can,
Half Japanese,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mo-Dettes,
Blancmange,
Stetsasonic,
Subhumans,
The Martian,
Yazoo,
Marvin Gaye,
Big Daddy Kane,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rosa Yemen,
Alton Ellis,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kaleidoscope,
Ohio Players,
Ronnie Foster,
Boogie Down Productions,
Animal Collective,
Suburban Knight,
Anthony Braxton,
Soul II Soul,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Crash Course in Science,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Seeds,
Y Pants,
Ultravox,
Erasure,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
Funkadelic,
Technova,
The Zeros,
F. McDonald,
Mars,
The Smiths,
Negative Approach,
Bluetip,
World's Most,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marc Almond,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Anakelly,
Black Flag,
Flash Fearless,
The Red Krayola,
Pulsallama,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Blues Magoos,
Adolescents,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Clear Light,
The Fugs,
Theoretical Girls,
Jacob Miller,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.