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 Greece and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Smoke to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
John Foxx,
Lucky Dragons,
The Gun Club,
Cybotron,
Essential Logic,
Joy Division,
Donald Byrd,
John Lydon,
X-102,
Outsiders,
Ice-T,
Mantronix,
Arab on Radar,
The American Breed,
Black Flag,
The Smoke,
Aswad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Subhumans,
Freddie Wadling,
The Kinks,
The Raincoats,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gregory Isaacs,
Niagra,
10cc,
Sarah Menescal,
Talk Talk,
a-ha,
Joey Negro,
The Modern Lovers,
Icehouse,
Youth Brigade,
Sugar Minott,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Mojo Men,
The United States of America,
Scratch Acid,
The Motions,
Laurel Aitken,
Wasted Youth,
Moebius,
Rod Modell,
Reuben Wilson,
In Retrospect,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Gladiators,
48th St. Collective,
Aaron Thompson,
Deadbeat,
The Associates,
Andrew Hill,
Moss Icon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
AZ,
Scan 7,
Harmonia,
X-Ray Spex,
Jacques Brel,
The Stooges,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.