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 Slovenia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Reuben Wilson 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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lungfish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Guru Guru,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sister Nancy,
Infiniti,
Roger Hodgson,
Deepchord,
Crime,
Outsiders,
Groovy Waters,
Pere Ubu,
Banda Bassotti,
Tim Buckley,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
New York Dolls,
Goldenarms,
La Düsseldorf,
Shoche,
MC5,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eric Dolphy,
Lower 48,
Skarface,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rapeman,
Sight & Sound,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rod Modell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Funky Four + One,
Joyce Sims,
Country Teasers,
a-ha,
Glenn Branca,
Monolake,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rekid,
Nico,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
David Bowie,
Rosa Yemen,
Barrington Levy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kurtis Blow,
Derrick Morgan,
Carl Craig,
Roxette,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Circle Jerks,
Monks,
Fear,
Electric Prunes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Birthday Party,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.