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 Romania and from Tokyo.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bologna.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin 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 Steve Hackett to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Audionom,
Flamin' Groovies,
James White and The Blacks,
Hashim,
UT,
Alison Limerick,
Cecil Taylor,
Scan 7,
Buzzcocks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Procol Harum,
Ten City,
Eric Copeland,
Eric B and Rakim,
Nirvana,
Guru Guru,
June of 44,
Q and Not U,
Fat Boys,
Don Cherry,
Qualms,
Sight & Sound,
The Raincoats,
The Sonics,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Association,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
48th St. Collective,
Technova,
Quantec,
Make Up,
Lyres,
The Toasters,
ABC,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Slick Rick,
Agent Orange,
Los Fastidios,
World's Most,
Warsaw,
The Cowsills,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Saints,
The Smoke,
the Normal,
Basic Channel,
Japan,
Arab on Radar,
Second Layer,
Pole,
Skriet,
Amon Düül,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Remains,
Anakelly,
Hoover,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.