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 Saudi Arabia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Accadde A to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Moby Grape. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up 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 a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Aswad,
Minutemen,
The Skatalites,
The Seeds,
Bad Manners,
Cal Tjader,
Organ,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Grauzone,
Reuben Wilson,
Alton Ellis,
Saccharine Trust,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Neon Judgement,
Toni Rubio,
Cameo,
Magma,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Von Mondo,
The Gories,
Aural Exciters,
Deepchord,
Banda Bassotti,
Judy Mowatt,
Scientists,
Donald Byrd,
Laurel Aitken,
Brick,
Model 500,
Fela Kuti,
Newcleus,
The Count Five,
KRS-One,
The Martian,
Dave Gahan,
Bootsy Collins,
Circle Jerks,
Skriet,
Bob Dylan,
Hoover,
Japan,
John Holt,
Eric Dolphy,
Brand Nubian,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Slits,
Carl Craig,
Icehouse,
Guru Guru,
Mark Hollis,
Gastr Del Sol,
kango's stein massive,
Amon Düül,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Associates,
CMW,
The Saints,
Crime,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.