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 Liberia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bizarre Inc. to the grime 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bizarre Inc.,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Dead Boys,
Blake Baxter,
Derrick Morgan,
Max Romeo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Minor Threat,
Juan Atkins,
The Young Rascals,
ABBA,
Gichy Dan,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Stetsasonic,
Swans,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lyres,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eric Dolphy,
Clear Light,
Wolf Eyes,
Charles Mingus,
Jandek,
Dave Gahan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Neu!,
Dawn Penn,
Minutemen,
Public Enemy,
Michelle Simonal,
Wings,
Liliput,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Electric Prunes,
Gastr Del Sol,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mojo Men,
The Names,
Pantytec,
Barry Ungar,
Ten City,
Marshall Jefferson,
Black Bananas,
Rod Modell,
Joy Division,
John Coltrane,
Pagans,
KRS-One,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Buzzcocks,
Camberwell Now,
Chrome,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Delon & Dalcan,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kas Product,
Lou Christie,
New York Dolls,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.