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 Peru and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 synthesizer 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 Move to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Martian. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
MDC,
Saccharine Trust,
Little Man,
Organ,
Jeff Mills,
Ponytail,
Shoche,
Roger Hodgson,
Fatback Band,
Ronan,
Desert Stars,
Minutemen,
Anthony Braxton,
World's Most,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Human League,
Pagans,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Eve St. Jones,
Kas Product,
Robert Hood,
Todd Rundgren,
Chris Corsano,
Aswad,
Piero Umiliani,
Rites of Spring,
Porter Ricks,
Liliput,
Chris & Cosey,
Brand Nubian,
Buzzcocks,
Gang of Four,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Laurel Aitken,
John Coltrane,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Peter and Kerry,
The Gories,
Ten City,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lucky Dragons,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Blackbyrds,
June of 44,
Amon Düül II,
Niagra,
Pulsallama,
Skaos,
Flash Fearless,
The American Breed,
Cluster,
Lalann,
Pussy Galore,
Grey Daturas,
Sarah Menescal,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Fifty Foot Hose,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.