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 Malawi and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Fugazi to the crunk 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Bobby Byrd,
The New Christs,
Crash Course in Science,
Index,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Von Mondo,
Radio Birdman,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Trojans,
Q and Not U,
Frankie Knuckles,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ornette Coleman,
New Age Steppers,
Brass Construction,
Trumans Water,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Carl Craig,
Crispy Ambulance,
Vladislav Delay,
Minor Threat,
Toni Rubio,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Henry Cow,
The Walker Brothers,
The American Breed,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Human League,
D'Angelo,
Sandy B,
DJ Sneak,
Motorama,
Pylon,
kango's stein massive,
Dawn Penn,
Godley & Creme,
Second Layer,
Sällskapet,
Bill Wells,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wings,
Talk Talk,
Soul Sonic Force,
Barclay James Harvest,
Leonard Cohen,
Graham Central Station,
Don Cherry,
Model 500,
David Axelrod,
Ultimate Spinach,
Magazine,
Davy DMX,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marc Almond,
Morten Harket,
Marvin Gaye,
Guru Guru,
The Litter,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Joe Smooth,
Jacob Miller,
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.