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 Nigeria and from Halifax.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 clarinet 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 Joy Division to the grime 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Model 500,
The Move,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Roxy Music,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Johnny Clarke,
Kayak,
Rapeman,
Gichy Dan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
This Heat,
Fugazi,
Monolake,
Michelle Simonal,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nico,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Suburban Knight,
10cc,
Godley & Creme,
Sam Rivers,
Erasure,
Johnny Osbourne,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Red Krayola,
Lightning Bolt,
Avey Tare,
the Fania All-Stars,
Crash Course in Science,
Grandmaster Flash,
Motorama,
Gang Starr,
Iggy Pop,
Thompson Twins,
The Real Kids,
Sonny Sharrock,
Negative Approach,
The Fire Engines,
John Coltrane,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Essential Logic,
Funkadelic,
La Düsseldorf,
Derrick May,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Blues Magoos,
Shoche,
Peter and Kerry,
Prince Buster,
Brass Construction,
Lower 48,
Kaleidoscope,
Donny Hathaway,
Ronan,
Smog,
Slave,
The Divine Comedy,
Pussy Galore,
Maleditus Sound,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.