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 Ivory Coast and from Lyon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Slits to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Standells,
The Young Rascals,
Davy DMX,
Maurizio,
Sandy B,
Warsaw,
Terrestrial Tones,
Scott Walker,
K-Klass,
Tubeway Army,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Siglo XX,
The Durutti Column,
Chris & Cosey,
Newcleus,
Moss Icon,
Roger Hodgson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cure,
Technova,
Lightning Bolt,
EPMD,
Minor Threat,
The Music Machine,
The Smiths,
Roxette,
David McCallum,
The Golliwogs,
Patti Smith,
The Fugs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Monolake,
Nirvana,
Kurtis Blow,
China Crisis,
The Tremeloes,
Barclay James Harvest,
Banda Bassotti,
The Beau Brummels,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Minnie Riperton,
Jerry's Kids,
Peter & Gordon,
The Evens,
the Bar-Kays,
Juan Atkins,
Aloha Tigers,
Isaac Hayes,
Matthew Bourne,
The American Breed,
Marcia Griffiths,
48th St. Collective,
Procol Harum,
The Residents,
Depeche Mode,
Bobby Byrd,
James White and The Blacks,
Accadde A,
The Real Kids,
Grey Daturas,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.