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 Nauru and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 London and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 Tres Demented to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Zeros,
Pharoah Sanders,
Unrelated Segments,
Grey Daturas,
The Move,
Sparks,
Bobby Sherman,
June of 44,
Minor Threat,
Juan Atkins,
Lightning Bolt,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Khruangbin,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Junior Murvin,
Johnny Osbourne,
ABBA,
Skaos,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
10cc,
EPMD,
Niagra,
Ornette Coleman,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
X-102,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ohio Players,
Tom Boy,
Donald Byrd,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Clear Light,
Loose Ends,
Lungfish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Deakin,
Brick,
DJ Style,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Heaven 17,
Erasure,
Popol Vuh,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
DNA,
Black Pus,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Desert Stars,
The Detroit Cobras,
T. Rex,
UT,
Mandrill,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Smiths,
CMW,
Harmonia,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen.
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.