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 Russia and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 organ 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 Marshall Jefferson to the jazz 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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Black Sheep,
Adolescents,
Lyres,
Royal Trux,
Gabor Szabo,
Camouflage,
Little Man,
Faraquet,
The Fugs,
Matthew Halsall,
Eurythmics,
Magazine,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Godley & Creme,
Hoover,
Mr. Review,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ronnie Foster,
Moss Icon,
Kurtis Blow,
Lou Christie,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sonic Youth,
Eric Dolphy,
Make Up,
Tommy Roe,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cameo,
Stiv Bators,
Moebius,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Cure,
Joy Division,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lebanon Hanover,
Stetsasonic,
Monks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Star Department,
the Bar-Kays,
New Order,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Outsiders,
Icehouse,
Masters at Work,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rekid,
Con Funk Shun,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Japan,
Joe Smooth,
Andrew Hill,
The Gap Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic.
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.