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 Bolivia and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bologna.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Average White Band 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Bluetip,
The Young Rascals,
Barbara Tucker,
Joe Finger,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Main Source,
Byron Stingily,
Depeche Mode,
Vainqueur,
Derrick Morgan,
Rotary Connection,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sun Ra,
Funkadelic,
10cc,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Invisible,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Move,
Harmonia,
Circle Jerks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Moody Blues,
Flipper,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
June Days,
a-ha,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Anakelly,
Avey Tare,
The Sound,
Crispian St. Peters,
Interpol,
Young Marble Giants,
Wolf Eyes,
Cymande,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Shadows of Knight,
Siglo XX,
Alphaville,
Eurythmics,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Zeros,
Eric Dolphy,
Gang Green,
The Wake,
Dark Day,
Jacob Miller,
Camberwell Now,
K-Klass,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Smog,
Little Man,
The United States of America,
In Retrospect,
Boz Scaggs,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.