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 Venezuela and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 clarinet 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 The Misunderstood to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Wasted Youth,
Johnny Clarke,
Magma,
Agitation Free,
Spoonie Gee,
Michelle Simonal,
Junior Murvin,
the Swans,
D'Angelo,
The Black Dice,
Eric Dolphy,
Blossom Toes,
Essential Logic,
Gang of Four,
Sällskapet,
The Evens,
Los Fastidios,
Half Japanese,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
F. McDonald,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marine Girls,
Traffic Nightmare,
U.S. Maple,
Gong,
Accadde A,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Blancmange,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Judy Mowatt,
Fugazi,
Spandau Ballet,
Chris Corsano,
Ronnie Foster,
Sparks,
Trumans Water,
The Human League,
Joe Smooth,
Wolf Eyes,
Section 25,
EPMD,
Joy Division,
Alison Limerick,
Quantec,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Fall,
New Order,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fugs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fatback Band,
The Moody Blues,
Loose Ends,
Intrusion,
Gang Green,
Camouflage,
Chris & Cosey,
Pere Ubu,
The Mojo Men,
Girls At Our Best!,
Khruangbin,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.