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 Benin and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 synthesizer 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the rock 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 The J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Howard Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
10cc,
The Birthday Party,
The J.B.'s,
Ludus,
Fatback Band,
Youth Brigade,
Iggy Pop,
Au Pairs,
Lou Christie,
The Monochrome Set,
Saccharine Trust,
Audionom,
The Music Machine,
Kool Moe Dee,
Chris & Cosey,
China Crisis,
John Lydon,
The Sonics,
Stereo Dub,
The Electric Prunes,
The Gories,
Pole,
The Vogues,
Marvin Gaye,
The Beau Brummels,
The Standells,
Sandy B,
Jimmy McGriff,
Harry Pussy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Y Pants,
Scott Walker,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stetsasonic,
Crooked Eye,
Half Japanese,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Isaac Hayes,
Tomorrow,
Cecil Taylor,
The Victims,
Von Mondo,
Rekid,
Morten Harket,
The Doobie Brothers,
F. McDonald,
The Cure,
Sonic Youth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dorothy Ashby,
Roy Ayers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
the Germs,
Sugar Minott,
A Certain Ratio,
Howard Jones,
Duran Duran,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.