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 Armenia and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Brass Construction to the disco 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Don Cherry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Khruangbin,
Pulsallama,
Rekid,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jandek,
Tommy Roe,
Derrick May,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bill Wells,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lucky Dragons,
Glenn Branca,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Terry Callier,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Mars,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Maurizio,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sandy B,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grandmaster Flash,
Inner City,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Byron Stingily,
The Knickerbockers,
Peter & Gordon,
Cameo,
Althea and Donna,
One Last Wish,
Davy DMX,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Von Mondo,
EPMD,
Dark Day,
Scientists,
The Blackbyrds,
Jerry's Kids,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The American Breed,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Roy Ayers,
The Fortunes,
Erykah Badu,
Junior Murvin,
Harmonia,
Moss Icon,
The Walker Brothers,
Hardrive,
Adolescents,
Urselle,
Soulsonic Force,
Joensuu 1685,
The Misunderstood,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Vogues,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.