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 Serbia and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 The Real Kids to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Godley & Creme,
Pet Shop Boys,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Star Department,
Saccharine Trust,
Excepter,
Ultravox,
Thompson Twins,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sällskapet,
Judy Mowatt,
Sparks,
Animal Collective,
Bronski Beat,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sonic Youth,
Robert Wyatt,
The Moleskins,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Essential Logic,
Cymande,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Sound,
Agitation Free,
Electric Prunes,
Altered Images,
The J.B.'s,
Archie Shepp,
Joensuu 1685,
Prince Buster,
Robert Hood,
Pylon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Pretty Things,
Warsaw,
Fluxion,
Steve Hackett,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Red Krayola,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The United States of America,
Spandau Ballet,
Sister Nancy,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gang Starr,
Jeff Mills,
The Fortunes,
Scott Walker,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gang of Four,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minnie Riperton,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cal Tjader,
Smog,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Electric Light Orchestra,
DJ Sneak,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.