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 Lesotho and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 China Crisis to the rock 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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Scan 7,
John Lydon,
The Evens,
Sällskapet,
Procol Harum,
Bizarre Inc.,
Masters at Work,
Fat Boys,
Nico,
Swans,
Visage,
These Immortal Souls,
Rufus Thomas,
Model 500,
LL Cool J,
Altered Images,
DJ Sneak,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Trumans Water,
The Litter,
Agitation Free,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Drive Like Jehu,
Negative Approach,
Fela Kuti,
ABBA,
Soft Cell,
The Martian,
Boogie Down Productions,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Banda Bassotti,
Black Sheep,
48th St. Collective,
The Trojans,
Althea and Donna,
Faust,
JFA,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Oneida,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nas,
Charles Mingus,
The Offenders,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Roger Hodgson,
Dual Sessions,
The Pretty Things,
The Vogues,
Eli Mardock,
Bronski Beat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bauhaus,
Flamin' Groovies,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mary Jane Girls,
OOIOO,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Blake Baxter,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.