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 Austria and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the electroclash 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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
Bob Dylan,
Fluxion,
Con Funk Shun,
The Fuzztones,
Cymande,
Peter and Kerry,
Eddi Front,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Visage,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Stereo Dub,
Soulsonic Force,
Mary Jane Girls,
Colin Newman,
Steve Hackett,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Association,
The Slackers,
the Soft Cell,
Eric Copeland,
Shuggie Otis,
Ludus,
the Swans,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Alphaville,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Flipper,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kurtis Blow,
Sexual Harrassment,
Crash Course in Science,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Techniques,
Silicon Teens,
Pylon,
Arcadia,
Zapp,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Guru Guru,
Surgeon,
Technova,
Liliput,
June Days,
Parry Music,
Duran Duran,
Todd Terry,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Index,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Quadrant,
Avey Tare,
Flash Fearless,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gang Starr,
The Victims,
Model 500,
The Angels of Light,
Todd Rundgren,
Aswad,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.