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 Ivory Coast and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bauhaus to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
Buzzcocks,
Dead Boys,
Urselle,
Unrelated Segments,
Zapp,
Black Pus,
Saccharine Trust,
Lebanon Hanover,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joyce Sims,
Ossler,
Godley & Creme,
Chris & Cosey,
Severed Heads,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lou Christie,
Surgeon,
The Velvet Underground,
Joey Negro,
Patti Smith,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Busters,
Animal Collective,
Quantec,
The Sound,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Desert Stars,
Gichy Dan,
The Victims,
Pagans,
China Crisis,
Black Moon,
Visage,
Sister Nancy,
Ralphi Rosario,
Colin Newman,
DJ Sneak,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Duran Duran,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Cowsills,
Tim Buckley,
Byron Stingily,
The Invisible,
B.T. Express,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed,
Banda Bassotti,
The Fortunes,
Sixth Finger,
Newcleus,
Donald Byrd,
James Chance & The Contortions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dorothy Ashby,
a-ha,
Anthony Braxton,
Nick Fraelich,
Erykah Badu,
Marmalade,
The Knickerbockers,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.