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 Montenegro and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 sitar 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 The New Christs to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
DJ Style,
ABC,
Eden Ahbez,
Wasted Youth,
Grauzone,
Juan Atkins,
Sugar Minott,
Pussy Galore,
Tropical Tobacco,
Mad Mike,
Warsaw,
Duran Duran,
Blossom Toes,
Second Layer,
Patti Smith,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mr. Review,
10cc,
Sun City Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Freddie Wadling,
Bush Tetras,
Yaz,
June Days,
Joy Division,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Porter Ricks,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Erykah Badu,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nik Kershaw,
the Sonics,
The Monochrome Set,
The Stooges,
Bronski Beat,
John Coltrane,
The Fortunes,
Minor Threat,
Liliput,
The Gun Club,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Malaria!,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marcia Griffiths,
Joey Negro,
The Zeros,
Roxy Music,
Aaron Thompson,
Moby Grape,
The New Christs,
Altered Images,
David Bowie,
Faraquet,
Roger Hodgson,
Swell Maps,
Masters at Work,
Ultra Naté,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eric Copeland,
Toni Rubio,
Groovy Waters,
L. Decosne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.