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 Jamaica and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 A Certain Ratio to the punk 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 The Litter. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Near record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
Negative Approach,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joy Division,
The Slackers,
Bootsy Collins,
ABBA,
Soul II Soul,
The Grass Roots,
Reagan Youth,
Livin' Joy,
X-101,
John Lydon,
Morten Harket,
Ultra Naté,
Mary Jane Girls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Grey Daturas,
Symarip,
Audionom,
Khruangbin,
the Swans,
Hasil Adkins,
These Immortal Souls,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Inner City,
Loose Ends,
The Saints,
Henry Cow,
Deepchord,
48th St. Collective,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Icehouse,
Amazonics,
In Retrospect,
The Associates,
James White and The Blacks,
Unrelated Segments,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
U.S. Maple,
kango's stein massive,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dave Gahan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Nik Kershaw,
UT,
The Remains,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Main Source,
The Techniques,
Saccharine Trust,
Judy Mowatt,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Fortunes,
Minor Threat,
This Heat,
R.M.O.,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ice-T,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.