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 Israel and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Shanghai.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 The Gladiators to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dead C record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Joe Finger,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Saccharine Trust,
Deakin,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cameo,
Schoolly D,
Pylon,
The Invisible,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Quadrant,
The Slackers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roxy Music,
The Mojo Men,
Hardrive,
Isaac Hayes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bob Dylan,
Sonic Youth,
Von Mondo,
Drexciya,
Vladislav Delay,
The Dirtbombs,
Rotary Connection,
Surgeon,
Visage,
Erasure,
L. Decosne,
Ten City,
The Human League,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Neon Judgement,
Moebius,
Model 500,
Pere Ubu,
Byron Stingily,
Cybotron,
Banda Bassotti,
Warsaw,
The Blackbyrds,
Dual Sessions,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tom Boy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Al Stewart,
Wasted Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lakeside,
Avey Tare,
Jawbox,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Toasters,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sun City Girls,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Buzzcocks,
Essential Logic,
Altered Images,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.