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 Rwanda and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
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 DJ Style to the jazz 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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fela Kuti,
The Young Rascals,
The Smiths,
Vainqueur,
Traffic Nightmare,
Echospace,
ABC,
Grey Daturas,
U.S. Maple,
Magazine,
Iggy Pop,
Sex Pistols,
Infiniti,
Second Layer,
Carl Craig,
Harmonia,
Yellowson,
The Saints,
The Kinks,
Make Up,
Kurtis Blow,
Peter and Kerry,
Bobby Byrd,
Simply Red,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Von Mondo,
China Crisis,
Ornette Coleman,
Rekid,
X-102,
Marshall Jefferson,
Stiv Bators,
Crash Course in Science,
Silicon Teens,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Pop Group,
In Retrospect,
Soulsonic Force,
The Sound,
Robert Wyatt,
Tommy Roe,
Wally Richardson,
June of 44,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ralphi Rosario,
Reagan Youth,
Wolf Eyes,
Charles Mingus,
Yusef Lateef,
Television,
The Slits,
Radio Birdman,
Fat Boys,
Wings,
The Shadows of Knight,
Shuggie Otis,
Con Funk Shun,
The Fuzztones,
The Raincoats,
Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus.
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.