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 Sudan and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the organ 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 Lyres to the disco 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Accadde A,
CMW,
Mantronix,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lalann,
F. McDonald,
Junior Murvin,
Johnny Clarke,
New Order,
Funky Four + One,
Minnie Riperton,
China Crisis,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dark Day,
DNA,
The Residents,
Eden Ahbez,
Sonic Youth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Make Up,
Steve Hackett,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Shoche,
The Motions,
Skarface,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
cv313,
The Monochrome Set,
Reuben Wilson,
Arthur Verocai,
Warren Ellis,
Erasure,
Urselle,
Scrapy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nas,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tropical Tobacco,
Maurizio,
Idris Muhammad,
Little Man,
Quadrant,
Godley & Creme,
The Gap Band,
Quando Quango,
The Grass Roots,
Adolescents,
Fela Kuti,
Sexual Harrassment,
Vladislav Delay,
Television,
AZ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
James White and The Blacks,
Roger Hodgson,
48th St. Collective,
Hoover,
Franke,
Dawn Penn,
Brick,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.