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 Lesotho and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Unrelated Segments to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Move. All the underground hits.
All Eric B and Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army 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 organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
cv313,
E-Dancer,
Quando Quango,
Rotary Connection,
Siglo XX,
Procol Harum,
Fear,
Idris Muhammad,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Tremeloes,
Colin Newman,
Average White Band,
ABC,
Lakeside,
The Dave Clark Five,
Marmalade,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Moody Blues,
Monolake,
Section 25,
Sarah Menescal,
The J.B.'s,
Bootsy Collins,
Eric Copeland,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Thompson Twins,
Loose Ends,
June of 44,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Last Poets,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eurythmics,
Faraquet,
Hardrive,
D'Angelo,
Brick,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Deepchord,
The Raincoats,
The American Breed,
Groovy Waters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Severed Heads,
The Slits,
CMW,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Oneida,
Animal Collective,
Peter & Gordon,
Sugar Minott,
Bill Near,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bobby Womack,
Patti Smith,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Whodini,
Roxy Music,
Lalann,
Angry Samoans,
Bush Tetras,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.