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 Afghanistan and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Public Image Ltd. to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
China Crisis,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Khruangbin,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jeff Mills,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pierre Henry,
Ultra Naté,
Marmalade,
Drive Like Jehu,
Metal Thangz,
Freddie Wadling,
The Fuzztones,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Arcadia,
10cc,
Todd Terry,
Radio Birdman,
Gil Scott Heron,
Royal Trux,
R.M.O.,
Radiopuhelimet,
June Days,
Aswad,
The Techniques,
Buzzcocks,
The Gories,
The Raincoats,
Bill Wells,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stetsasonic,
Cheater Slicks,
Bad Manners,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Severed Heads,
Morten Harket,
David McCallum,
Bush Tetras,
The Moleskins,
Television Personalities,
James White and The Blacks,
Erykah Badu,
Derrick May,
Minnie Riperton,
the Fania All-Stars,
Masters at Work,
Shuggie Otis,
the Soft Cell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Mojo Men,
Subhumans,
The Five Americans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Deadbeat,
The Kinks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.