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 Venezuela and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 Techniques to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Cure. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
The Cowsills,
Marmalade,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Blues Magoos,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Boogie Down Productions,
Aloha Tigers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alphaville,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dave Gahan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Swans,
Qualms,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Smiths,
Gang of Four,
Siglo XX,
Outsiders,
The Fugs,
Radiohead,
Peter and Kerry,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kerri Chandler,
The Slits,
The Searchers,
Panda Bear,
Nas,
New Order,
Drexciya,
Sound Behaviour,
Anakelly,
The Dirtbombs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Slave,
Leonard Cohen,
Bobby Womack,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Eric Copeland,
Juan Atkins,
Sixth Finger,
The Gap Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lou Christie,
Alison Limerick,
The Velvet Underground,
X-Ray Spex,
Mary Jane Girls,
Technova,
MDC,
Popol Vuh,
Mission of Burma,
The Durutti Column,
Infiniti,
Graham Central Station,
Carl Craig,
Harry Pussy,
10cc,
48th St. Collective,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.