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 Tunisia and from Spokane.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes 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 World's Most to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
Jacob Miller,
James White and The Blacks,
Rekid,
Ituana,
Chris & Cosey,
Tom Boy,
Depeche Mode,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Cowsills,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Iggy Pop,
Jerry's Kids,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Brass Construction,
Davy DMX,
Infiniti,
Gastr Del Sol,
Symarip,
Reagan Youth,
Soul II Soul,
The Electric Prunes,
Wasted Youth,
Lower 48,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-Ray Spex,
The Moody Blues,
Rites of Spring,
Mark Hollis,
Neu!,
Bronski Beat,
Joey Negro,
Alton Ellis,
Eve St. Jones,
Beasts of Bourbon,
June Days,
Y Pants,
Massinfluence,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Graham Central Station,
The Last Poets,
Fad Gadget,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Zeros,
Gang of Four,
The Gun Club,
Glenn Branca,
Essential Logic,
The Selecter,
Grey Daturas,
Alice Coltrane,
Aloha Tigers,
Altered Images,
10cc,
Boz Scaggs,
The Beau Brummels,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Trojans,
Henry Cow,
Duran Duran,
The Fall,
Deadbeat,
Talk Talk,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.