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 Lebanon and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 F. McDonald to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Sam Rivers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slave record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nation of Ulysses,
Simply Red,
Outsiders,
Lower 48,
Harmonia,
Patti Smith,
Monks,
Morten Harket,
Ultravox,
The Fuzztones,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Fania All-Stars,
Thee Headcoats,
Susan Cadogan,
Average White Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lou Christie,
Soft Cell,
Ten City,
Hashim,
John Holt,
Surgeon,
Eric Copeland,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Evens,
The Index,
Suburban Knight,
Technova,
Danielle Patucci,
Gang Starr,
Panda Bear,
Rhythm & Sound,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Half Japanese,
Darondo,
Letta Mbulu,
The Litter,
Fugazi,
Curtis Mayfield,
cv313,
Minutemen,
Metal Thangz,
Ludus,
The Misunderstood,
The Pop Group,
New Order,
Pylon,
Underground Resistance,
Lightning Bolt,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pierre Henry,
R.M.O.,
Juan Atkins,
Mandrill,
Bootsy Collins,
Radiopuhelimet,
Country Teasers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.