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 Haiti and from Hong Kong.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 A Certain Ratio to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every B.T. Express record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Outsiders,
Deepchord,
Tres Demented,
Scrapy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roxette,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Laurel Aitken,
New Age Steppers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Toni Rubio,
Minnie Riperton,
Reuben Wilson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Victims,
Mission of Burma,
Harpers Bizarre,
Yazoo,
The United States of America,
Can,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bill Near,
The Grass Roots,
Minor Threat,
The Fugs,
Panda Bear,
Echospace,
Gastr Del Sol,
Flash Fearless,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Nas,
Brick,
Sun City Girls,
Chrome,
Mark Hollis,
Make Up,
Talk Talk,
Blake Baxter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Bananas,
Yellowson,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kayak,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Pretty Things,
FM Einheit,
Wire,
Niagra,
Angry Samoans,
Swans,
Popol Vuh,
Michelle Simonal,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lower 48,
Quando Quango,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jeru the Damaja,
Radiohead,
Joey Negro,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.