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 Kyrgyzstan and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 808 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 Bootsy Collins to the jazz 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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
Steve Hackett,
The Five Americans,
Al Stewart,
La Düsseldorf,
Sight & Sound,
Lakeside,
Moby Grape,
Robert Görl,
Agitation Free,
Fatback Band,
Bad Manners,
New York Dolls,
Jandek,
The Zeros,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
X-102,
Can,
Peter & Gordon,
MDC,
Glenn Branca,
Joe Smooth,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Bar-Kays,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Neu!,
Funkadelic,
Neil Young,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Massinfluence,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jacob Miller,
Radiohead,
Mantronix,
the Fania All-Stars,
Cymande,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Letta Mbulu,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kurtis Blow,
the Sonics,
Wire,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Severed Heads,
OOIOO,
The Dirtbombs,
Ituana,
EPMD,
Section 25,
Essential Logic,
T.S.O.L.,
Technova,
E-Dancer,
John Lydon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Fear,
Bill Wells,
Drexciya,
Electric Prunes,
Cluster,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.