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 Lithuania and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Pagans,
Fad Gadget,
Kaleidoscope,
Sonic Youth,
Brothers Johnson,
Rotary Connection,
UT,
Camberwell Now,
Radiohead,
The Move,
Royal Trux,
The Wake,
The Associates,
Altered Images,
Barclay James Harvest,
Babytalk,
JFA,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Beau Brummels,
Jeru the Damaja,
Crispy Ambulance,
Don Cherry,
Toni Rubio,
The Victims,
In Retrospect,
Roxette,
K-Klass,
Cheater Slicks,
Johnny Clarke,
Chris & Cosey,
Donny Hathaway,
Yazoo,
Leonard Cohen,
Vladislav Delay,
Gong,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fela Kuti,
MDC,
Essential Logic,
Peter and Kerry,
Au Pairs,
Slave,
EPMD,
H. Thieme,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Surgeon,
Dawn Penn,
Bootsy Collins,
Visage,
Ultra Naté,
Magma,
Alton Ellis,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ronnie Foster,
Drexciya,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.