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 Mauritius and from Houston.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 K-Klass to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Los Fastidios tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Barclay James Harvest,
Goldenarms,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Count Five,
Buzzcocks,
Siglo XX,
Rekid,
Basic Channel,
AZ,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pagans,
Porter Ricks,
Scan 7,
Fear,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Mojo Men,
Skaos,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Alarm Clocks,
Danielle Patucci,
10cc,
Donald Byrd,
Amon Düül II,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Cure,
Sonic Youth,
Bang On A Can,
Monks,
The Detroit Cobras,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Von Mondo,
Dennis Brown,
Accadde A,
Crash Course in Science,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Fuzztones,
K-Klass,
These Immortal Souls,
Darondo,
Mandrill,
Alison Limerick,
Essential Logic,
The Music Machine,
Zapp,
Ohio Players,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Tremeloes,
Whodini,
Black Sheep,
Sound Behaviour,
Mr. Review,
Interpol,
Derrick May,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Andrew Hill,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sister Nancy,
David McCallum,
Saccharine Trust,
The Fall,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.