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 Estonia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Malaria! to the rap 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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Eating Sloth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Los Fastidios,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The United States of America,
Average White Band,
Skaos,
Johnny Clarke,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gregory Isaacs,
Index,
Morten Harket,
Infiniti,
Roxy Music,
The Evens,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Invisible,
Derrick Morgan,
Eli Mardock,
Shoche,
The Selecter,
Harry Pussy,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Martian,
Desert Stars,
Adolescents,
Symarip,
John Cale,
Soul Sonic Force,
Colin Newman,
Black Pus,
Grandmaster Flash,
Hasil Adkins,
These Immortal Souls,
Goldenarms,
Freddie Wadling,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scott Walker,
Absolute Body Control,
This Heat,
Albert Ayler,
Marc Almond,
Delon & Dalcan,
Television,
Josef K,
The Durutti Column,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Alison Limerick,
The Skatalites,
DJ Style,
The Happenings,
Agent Orange,
LL Cool J,
Shuggie Otis,
Sonny Sharrock,
Masters at Work,
Silicon Teens,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Trojans,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Johnny Osbourne,
Avey Tare,
Con Funk Shun,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.