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 Argentina and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Yazoo to the punk 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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All The Beau Brummels tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
The Knickerbockers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Terry Callier,
Bauhaus,
Nico,
Rapeman,
Mo-Dettes,
Sugar Minott,
The Toasters,
Groovy Waters,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Buckinghams,
The Invisible,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ronnie Foster,
a-ha,
Ten City,
Tubeway Army,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Slits,
KRS-One,
Danielle Patucci,
Echospace,
Pere Ubu,
Bob Dylan,
8 Eyed Spy,
Fela Kuti,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Warsaw,
Wasted Youth,
Rod Modell,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Cowsills,
Amazonics,
The Music Machine,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Wings,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lower 48,
MDC,
Yaz,
Don Cherry,
Unwound,
The Last Poets,
The Angels of Light,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moss Icon,
Laurel Aitken,
Sex Pistols,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Associates,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gong,
The Gories,
the Germs,
The Saints,
Roxette,
Sonny Sharrock,
Q65,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.