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 Germany and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Eric B and Rakim to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kaleidoscope,
Soft Cell,
Saccharine Trust,
The Cramps,
Agent Orange,
Rites of Spring,
Ornette Coleman,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Detroit Cobras,
Second Layer,
Nas,
China Crisis,
The Fuzztones,
Theoretical Girls,
Jesper Dahlback,
Alton Ellis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Glambeats Corp.,
Danielle Patucci,
Neu!,
Intrusion,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Panda Bear,
Porter Ricks,
Ken Boothe,
Bauhaus,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Maurizio,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roxy Music,
Vladislav Delay,
Electric Prunes,
Lakeside,
Black Pus,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lalann,
kango's stein massive,
Negative Approach,
X-101,
Stetsasonic,
Scientists,
Maleditus Sound,
The Offenders,
Althea and Donna,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lou Christie,
Whodini,
Donny Hathaway,
Von Mondo,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Underground Resistance,
Cybotron,
Mandrill,
Adolescents,
The Star Department,
Scott Walker,
Rhythm & Sound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Funkadelic,
Deepchord,
Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti.
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.