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 Cyprus and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Todd Rundgren to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
Jeff Lynne,
Quando Quango,
Joe Smooth,
Subhumans,
Davy DMX,
Pulsallama,
Gichy Dan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Average White Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lakeside,
Todd Rundgren,
cv313,
Bauhaus,
Bang On A Can,
Lalann,
Eric B and Rakim,
Tres Demented,
Heaven 17,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Fela Kuti,
Quadrant,
R.M.O.,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kevin Saunderson,
Drive Like Jehu,
Derrick Morgan,
Sugar Minott,
Avey Tare,
Easy Going,
Saccharine Trust,
Delta 5,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
D'Angelo,
Duran Duran,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gerry Rafferty,
Negative Approach,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Zapp,
Rhythm & Sound,
Siglo XX,
MDC,
The Cure,
Soft Cell,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
B.T. Express,
EPMD,
The Doors,
Maurizio,
Alison Limerick,
Surgeon,
Parry Music,
8 Eyed Spy,
Junior Murvin,
Radio Birdman,
Jesper Dahlback,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.