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 Paraguay and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Crash Course in Science to the disco 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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Patti Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Roxette,
Rod Modell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Matthew Bourne,
The Doobie Brothers,
T.S.O.L.,
The American Breed,
Faraquet,
The J.B.'s,
Jimmy McGriff,
Erasure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cybotron,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Hoover,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Blake Baxter,
the Germs,
Livin' Joy,
Judy Mowatt,
E-Dancer,
John Holt,
Loose Ends,
Tommy Roe,
Das Ding,
The Smiths,
48th St. Collective,
Ken Boothe,
Absolute Body Control,
Prince Buster,
U.S. Maple,
Fad Gadget,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Subhumans,
Cal Tjader,
Eric Copeland,
Kurtis Blow,
Yazoo,
The Standells,
Supertramp,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Interpol,
Bang On A Can,
The Fuzztones,
Japan,
Q65,
Pierre Henry,
the Swans,
Neil Young,
Avey Tare,
Symarip,
Quadrant,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dawn Penn,
Underground Resistance,
The Barracudas,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rosa Yemen,
The Fire Engines,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.