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 Costa Rica and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Michelle Simonal to the rap 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tom Boy,
Skaos,
The Young Rascals,
Soul Sonic Force,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Peter and Kerry,
The Remains,
MDC,
One Last Wish,
Black Flag,
David McCallum,
Accadde A,
Skriet,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
X-102,
The Grass Roots,
Patti Smith,
EPMD,
KRS-One,
Pantaleimon,
Gong,
Metal Thangz,
Suburban Knight,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dual Sessions,
Animal Collective,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
John Foxx,
Parry Music,
The Durutti Column,
Pagans,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Moss Icon,
Adolescents,
The Happenings,
Neil Young,
Lalo Schifrin,
OOIOO,
Dorothy Ashby,
Skarface,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The J.B.'s,
The Smiths,
Wolf Eyes,
Amon Düül,
B.T. Express,
Nirvana,
kango's stein massive,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Masters at Work,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bobby Sherman,
The Alarm Clocks,
Matthew Halsall,
Infiniti,
Judy Mowatt,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.