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 Portugal and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 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 Easy Going to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DNA,
The Residents,
The Standells,
CMW,
The Cowsills,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Barry Ungar,
Rotary Connection,
Johnny Clarke,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Aswad,
Flipper,
Prince Buster,
Roxy Music,
Cal Tjader,
The Gladiators,
Josef K,
Interpol,
Ronan,
Matthew Bourne,
Zero Boys,
Davy DMX,
Ponytail,
Lou Reed,
Organ,
U.S. Maple,
Bluetip,
Wally Richardson,
The Techniques,
The Slackers,
James White and The Blacks,
Quantec,
Bill Near,
The Fugs,
Audionom,
John Cale,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nas,
Joyce Sims,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
OOIOO,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Clear Light,
Basic Channel,
Wasted Youth,
John Lydon,
The Associates,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DJ Style,
Roxette,
The Zeros,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Human League,
Brothers Johnson,
Mr. Review,
X-Ray Spex,
Curtis Mayfield,
Whodini,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.