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 Mauritius and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 arpeggiator 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 The Five Americans to the funk 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angry Samoans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gong,
Bobby Byrd,
Electric Prunes,
Panda Bear,
Tears for Fears,
Mantronix,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Oblivians,
The United States of America,
Pantytec,
Flash Fearless,
Qualms,
Al Stewart,
Jacob Miller,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Beau Brummels,
Hardrive,
Chrome,
The Doobie Brothers,
Organ,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Aswad,
Heaven 17,
Lucky Dragons,
Intrusion,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Reuben Wilson,
Boz Scaggs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Avey Tare,
Crispy Ambulance,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Yusef Lateef,
Zero Boys,
The Leaves,
The Durutti Column,
Black Pus,
The Sonics,
Zapp,
The Toasters,
Swell Maps,
Crash Course in Science,
Erasure,
Piero Umiliani,
The Happenings,
Colin Newman,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bang On A Can,
Yellowson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jeff Mills,
Hasil Adkins,
Babytalk,
The Mighty Diamonds,
K-Klass,
Danielle Patucci,
The Neon Judgement,
Boredoms,
Jimmy McGriff,
AZ,
Supertramp,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
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.