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 Mauritius and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Dual Sessions to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
Don Cherry,
Robert Wyatt,
Sugar Minott,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Barbara Tucker,
Mr. Review,
Leonard Cohen,
Reuben Wilson,
Faraquet,
Scion,
Dead Boys,
Deakin,
The Angels of Light,
Arcadia,
Pylon,
The Toasters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Kinks,
The Blackbyrds,
Ralphi Rosario,
Massinfluence,
Q and Not U,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
ABBA,
Rites of Spring,
The Residents,
Gang Starr,
The Velvet Underground,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pagans,
Joe Smooth,
Godley & Creme,
Mandrill,
Joey Negro,
Yusef Lateef,
Swans,
Slick Rick,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jeff Mills,
Henry Cow,
Jacob Miller,
Fugazi,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Misunderstood,
Alison Limerick,
UT,
cv313,
Matthew Bourne,
Colin Newman,
Panda Bear,
Lindisfarne,
The Doobie Brothers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eddi Front,
Alphaville,
ABC,
AZ,
Tomorrow,
World's Most,
The Monochrome Set,
Animal Collective,
Sister Nancy,
The Standells,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.