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 Japan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba 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 Soft Cell to the rap 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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Funky Four + One,
The Mojo Men,
Banda Bassotti,
Monks,
Fugazi,
Gichy Dan,
Pagans,
Roy Ayers,
Livin' Joy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hashim,
Technova,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Procol Harum,
Loose Ends,
Theoretical Girls,
Faraquet,
Marshall Jefferson,
H. Thieme,
Anthony Braxton,
CMW,
The Raincoats,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Organ,
Jacques Brel,
Silicon Teens,
MC5,
Bill Near,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bill Wells,
Mo-Dettes,
The Sonics,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Happenings,
Alphaville,
Soul Sonic Force,
A Certain Ratio,
Arcadia,
Maurizio,
Porter Ricks,
Bush Tetras,
This Heat,
Interpol,
David Bowie,
The Litter,
Andrew Hill,
Skriet,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ituana,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lou Christie,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.