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 Brunei and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Brick to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Pole,
Zapp,
The Cowsills,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Negative Approach,
Flash Fearless,
Slave,
The Count Five,
Siglo XX,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Durutti Column,
Q65,
The Happenings,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Joy Division,
Young Marble Giants,
Spoonie Gee,
Gong,
Reuben Wilson,
The Real Kids,
The Vogues,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Goldenarms,
The Selecter,
Marcia Griffiths,
Tom Boy,
Kaleidoscope,
Nas,
The Blackbyrds,
KRS-One,
Silicon Teens,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Brick,
Minnie Riperton,
Whodini,
Bob Dylan,
The Human League,
FM Einheit,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tears for Fears,
Minor Threat,
Fluxion,
H. Thieme,
the Swans,
June Days,
Aloha Tigers,
Tim Buckley,
John Holt,
Eddi Front,
Minny Pops,
Easy Going,
Sugar Minott,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Althea and Donna,
48th St. Collective,
The Gladiators,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Echospace,
Amazonics,
MDC,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.