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 Sierra Leone and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 snare 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 Skaos to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator 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 arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
ABBA,
Fugazi,
These Immortal Souls,
The Moody Blues,
Gang of Four,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Thee Headcoats,
Basic Channel,
Newcleus,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Detroit Cobras,
Patti Smith,
The Pretty Things,
Clear Light,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultimate Spinach,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Stockholm Monsters,
Dennis Brown,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Walker Brothers,
The Young Rascals,
The Searchers,
Alison Limerick,
Dead Boys,
Sun Ra,
Swans,
Bush Tetras,
Los Fastidios,
Spoonie Gee,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wings,
Porter Ricks,
Rufus Thomas,
Au Pairs,
Q and Not U,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Todd Terry,
Amazonics,
D'Angelo,
Tommy Roe,
Roxette,
Nils Olav,
Youth Brigade,
Simply Red,
Bill Near,
Inner City,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Monks,
La Düsseldorf,
Carl Craig,
The Trojans,
the Association,
One Last Wish,
Erykah Badu,
Black Moon,
Morten Harket,
Minor Threat,
Marvin Gaye,
Country Teasers,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.