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 Marshall Islands and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
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 Donny Hathaway to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Certain Ratio,
Scrapy,
The Skatalites,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Vogues,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ultravox,
X-Ray Spex,
Joe Smooth,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Toasters,
Tubeway Army,
Quantec,
The Fall,
X-101,
Jacob Miller,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Max Romeo,
Pole,
Aaron Thompson,
Sight & Sound,
Robert Hood,
Avey Tare,
Pussy Galore,
Organ,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
MC5,
The Slackers,
Erasure,
Tommy Roe,
Maurizio,
Country Teasers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Johnny Clarke,
Ice-T,
Ponytail,
Zero Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
Lakeside,
Skaos,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Adolescents,
Sound Behaviour,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Blake Baxter,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
10cc,
Patti Smith,
Warren Ellis,
The Fortunes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New Order,
Yaz,
The Misunderstood,
Isaac Hayes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
T. Rex,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.