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 Burkina and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 guitar 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 Soul II Soul to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Laurel Aitken 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
David McCallum,
The Kinks,
Dave Gahan,
Masters at Work,
Letta Mbulu,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sister Nancy,
Television Personalities,
Funky Four + One,
Royal Trux,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jimmy McGriff,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Guru Guru,
Nils Olav,
Marmalade,
Crispy Ambulance,
Aloha Tigers,
Scrapy,
Bad Manners,
Blake Baxter,
Eli Mardock,
Howard Jones,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Foxx,
10cc,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ultimate Spinach,
Archie Shepp,
Harmonia,
Y Pants,
Maurizio,
the Slits,
Sam Rivers,
Desert Stars,
Dual Sessions,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joe Smooth,
The Tremeloes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
T.S.O.L.,
Jerry's Kids,
Chris Corsano,
Supertramp,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dark Day,
The Misunderstood,
Fat Boys,
PIL,
Dorothy Ashby,
Tom Boy,
Black Moon,
Infiniti,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scion,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.