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 Malaysia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Symarip to the jazz 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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Vainqueur,
Whodini,
Ronnie Foster,
Juan Atkins,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Busters,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ohio Players,
Darondo,
Kenny Larkin,
The Buckinghams,
Pere Ubu,
Charles Mingus,
Pole,
The Cure,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Dirtbombs,
Fatback Band,
Black Sheep,
Nik Kershaw,
Arcadia,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Associates,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Panda Bear,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sonny Sharrock,
Echospace,
the Germs,
Blake Baxter,
Brothers Johnson,
Faraquet,
Rekid,
Toni Rubio,
The Knickerbockers,
Donald Byrd,
Mars,
The Fortunes,
The Blackbyrds,
Amon Düül,
Trumans Water,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Surgeon,
Joy Division,
Eric Dolphy,
Robert Hood,
Malaria!,
Spoonie Gee,
The Smiths,
Tommy Roe,
Piero Umiliani,
T.S.O.L.,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Be Bop Deluxe,
These Immortal Souls,
Little Man,
Stiv Bators,
A Certain Ratio,
The American Breed,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kas Product,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.