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 Sri Lanka and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Thompson Twins to the crunk 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 Men They Couldn't Hang. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
the Soft Cell,
Outsiders,
Cheater Slicks,
Quadrant,
Bobby Womack,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
X-Ray Spex,
Blossom Toes,
Bill Wells,
Bad Manners,
Archie Shepp,
Schoolly D,
The Happenings,
Faraquet,
Make Up,
Malaria!,
Average White Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Althea and Donna,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Au Pairs,
Kurtis Blow,
The Neon Judgement,
The Sisters of Mercy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cure,
Audionom,
Nico,
Johnny Clarke,
Lower 48,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Scion,
June Days,
Flash Fearless,
The Busters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Robert Hood,
Popol Vuh,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pussy Galore,
Marshall Jefferson,
the Germs,
DJ Sneak,
Soft Cell,
Section 25,
Grey Daturas,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Blancmange,
Roxy Music,
Deakin,
Pere Ubu,
Crooked Eye,
LL Cool J,
Gregory Isaacs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.