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 Uganda and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 spring reverb 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 Young Rascals to the techno 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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
Al Stewart,
Cymande,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Freddie Wadling,
Fad Gadget,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bobby Womack,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bobby Sherman,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Brick,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Black Bananas,
The Saints,
Thee Headcoats,
Ultra Naté,
Dual Sessions,
The Names,
ABC,
Technova,
Vladislav Delay,
Mad Mike,
Amazonics,
The Grass Roots,
Pylon,
The Remains,
Lightning Bolt,
ABBA,
Roger Hodgson,
Faust,
The Count Five,
Arthur Verocai,
Jeff Mills,
Tubeway Army,
Quantec,
Au Pairs,
the Normal,
Crispian St. Peters,
This Heat,
Jandek,
Matthew Halsall,
Silicon Teens,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sandy B,
Aloha Tigers,
The Mojo Men,
Carl Craig,
Eric Copeland,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Don Cherry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Magma,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Skriet,
Wally Richardson,
Junior Murvin,
Stereo Dub,
Ken Boothe,
Q65,
Sun Ra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.