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 Laos and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Delta 5 to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
The Neon Judgement,
Visage,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Fugs,
The Human League,
Gregory Isaacs,
CMW,
The Red Krayola,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lalann,
Sight & Sound,
Bobby Sherman,
Aaron Thompson,
Davy DMX,
Can,
a-ha,
Alphaville,
Lower 48,
Siglo XX,
Eurythmics,
Kerri Chandler,
Arcadia,
Bauhaus,
Slave,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Residents,
The Raincoats,
Whodini,
Isaac Hayes,
Khruangbin,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Vainqueur,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rapeman,
Tropical Tobacco,
Quantec,
Dual Sessions,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Count Five,
The Black Dice,
Anakelly,
Bush Tetras,
Andrew Hill,
Banda Bassotti,
Amazonics,
Unrelated Segments,
The Move,
Trumans Water,
The Music Machine,
Althea and Donna,
Marmalade,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rufus Thomas,
Con Funk Shun,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gang Starr,
The Fire Engines,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.