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 Uruguay and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 guitar 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 Harry Pussy to the grime 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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Television Personalities,
The Associates,
Skaos,
Main Source,
Gong,
Tom Boy,
Thompson Twins,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Leonard Cohen,
Audionom,
Cybotron,
The Blues Magoos,
Toni Rubio,
Siglo XX,
Tears for Fears,
Fela Kuti,
Joy Division,
Junior Murvin,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Motorama,
Delta 5,
Roxy Music,
Neil Young,
Roger Hodgson,
Pagans,
Suicide,
Lyres,
Monolake,
Boogie Down Productions,
Matthew Bourne,
Sonic Youth,
Dennis Brown,
KRS-One,
The Gap Band,
Echospace,
Thee Headcoats,
John Cale,
Ossler,
Crime,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Basic Channel,
Lightning Bolt,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cluster,
Cheater Slicks,
Black Moon,
Robert Görl,
Grauzone,
The Martian,
Curtis Mayfield,
Amon Düül II,
Goldenarms,
Index,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Royal Trux,
Second Layer,
Ultimate Spinach,
Amazonics,
The Gun Club,
The Angels of Light,
Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage.
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.