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 Cuba and from Stockholm.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 snare 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 Funky Four + One to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Cure. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Cal Tjader,
Youth Brigade,
the Slits,
Eli Mardock,
Rotary Connection,
Robert Wyatt,
Banda Bassotti,
These Immortal Souls,
Sixth Finger,
The Monks,
the Association,
10cc,
Soft Cell,
Yusef Lateef,
Robert Hood,
Inner City,
Soulsonic Force,
Erasure,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
New Order,
Gastr Del Sol,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Fall,
The Beau Brummels,
Letta Mbulu,
Joensuu 1685,
The Cowsills,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Alphaville,
Boredoms,
Slick Rick,
Khruangbin,
The Martian,
This Heat,
Black Sheep,
Brand Nubian,
Trumans Water,
The Modern Lovers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Blancmange,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soul II Soul,
the Bar-Kays,
Moss Icon,
Monks,
Agitation Free,
Sonny Sharrock,
K-Klass,
Lower 48,
EPMD,
Derrick May,
One Last Wish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Arcadia,
Scion,
Minnie Riperton,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Qualms, Qualms, Qualms, Qualms.
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.