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 Malta and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Cairo.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Soft Cell to the crunk 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 Pere Ubu. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Jandek,
MDC,
Second Layer,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Panda Bear,
Tubeway Army,
Laurel Aitken,
The Fire Engines,
Mark Hollis,
Young Marble Giants,
Joey Negro,
Ultravox,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Supertramp,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Smiths,
Scion,
Danielle Patucci,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The United States of America,
Rod Modell,
Idris Muhammad,
The Trojans,
Slave,
Drive Like Jehu,
Amazonics,
Adolescents,
Marine Girls,
Donald Byrd,
Whodini,
Lucky Dragons,
Bluetip,
The Martian,
The Sound,
Piero Umiliani,
Lee Hazlewood,
Cymande,
Moebius,
a-ha,
Andrew Hill,
David Bowie,
Lower 48,
Crime,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Zeros,
Lakeside,
Mandrill,
The Misunderstood,
Quantec,
Y Pants,
Kurtis Blow,
The Dirtbombs,
Marshall Jefferson,
Shoche,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Suburban Knight,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.