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 Burundi and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 rhodes 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 Bronski Beat to the jazz 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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
Albert Ayler,
Jacob Miller,
Fifty Foot Hose,
OOIOO,
The Doors,
Subhumans,
The Fuzztones,
Tubeway Army,
CMW,
The Slits,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Alton Ellis,
The J.B.'s,
Suburban Knight,
FM Einheit,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Hoover,
Stetsasonic,
Matthew Bourne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Underground Resistance,
Country Teasers,
the Normal,
Amon Düül,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Monolake,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sarah Menescal,
Erykah Badu,
In Retrospect,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Los Fastidios,
Schoolly D,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Icehouse,
The Selecter,
The Evens,
James White and The Blacks,
Desert Stars,
Malaria!,
Marvin Gaye,
Brick,
Skaos,
Dennis Brown,
Mandrill,
Delta 5,
Unrelated Segments,
Kurtis Blow,
Section 25,
Flipper,
Sällskapet,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scan 7,
Joey Negro,
The Young Rascals,
Glenn Branca,
Frankie Knuckles,
Livin' Joy,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.