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 Luxembourg and from Salvador.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 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 The Men They Couldn't Hang to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Harry Pussy,
Eric Copeland,
The Gories,
Aloha Tigers,
Brand Nubian,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Star Department,
Minnie Riperton,
Arcadia,
The Cowsills,
The Birthday Party,
LL Cool J,
Eddi Front,
Fugazi,
Bang On A Can,
Slick Rick,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Toasters,
Silicon Teens,
K-Klass,
Joe Smooth,
New York Dolls,
Peter & Gordon,
The Fortunes,
The Standells,
The Red Krayola,
Shoche,
The Kinks,
Chrome,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sun City Girls,
Josef K,
Spoonie Gee,
Terrestrial Tones,
Marshall Jefferson,
Au Pairs,
Can,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Donny Hathaway,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Icehouse,
The Five Americans,
Grey Daturas,
Bob Dylan,
Qualms,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Isaac Hayes,
Roy Ayers,
In Retrospect,
David Axelrod,
The Beau Brummels,
The Motions,
B.T. Express,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Soulsonic Force,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.