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 Tonga and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Joy Division to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Hoover,
Juan Atkins,
The Leaves,
Echospace,
Matthew Halsall,
Kurtis Blow,
The Victims,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
LL Cool J,
Young Marble Giants,
The Vogues,
Urselle,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Moleskins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Human League,
Television,
Quadrant,
Bob Dylan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lightning Bolt,
Arcadia,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Oblivians,
Tommy Roe,
Second Layer,
The Real Kids,
OOIOO,
Lindisfarne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
R.M.O.,
Au Pairs,
Crash Course in Science,
Patti Smith,
Mark Hollis,
Peter and Kerry,
The Count Five,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Smiths,
Skriet,
Public Image Ltd.,
Quantec,
Livin' Joy,
Absolute Body Control,
Rod Modell,
Letta Mbulu,
Crooked Eye,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Motorama,
New Age Steppers,
Goldenarms,
Scan 7,
The Doors,
Yazoo,
The American Breed,
K-Klass,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson.
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.