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 Netherlands and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 spring reverb 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 The Tremeloes to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
Jerry's Kids,
The Mummies,
Ultimate Spinach,
Soft Cell,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
cv313,
Swans,
The Angels of Light,
Brick,
Franke,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ice-T,
Maurizio,
Index,
The Cure,
Radio Birdman,
Jandek,
Stiv Bators,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rapeman,
Bill Wells,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Silicon Teens,
Echospace,
Roger Hodgson,
John Lydon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Dave Clark Five,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Matthew Bourne,
Sister Nancy,
Deadbeat,
Icehouse,
Andrew Hill,
Vainqueur,
Funky Four + One,
Ultravox,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Depeche Mode,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Spoonie Gee,
Albert Ayler,
The Fugs,
Motorama,
Eden Ahbez,
Johnny Clarke,
The Move,
the Slits,
Magma,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gichy Dan,
CMW,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Warren Ellis,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mad Mike,
Marc Almond,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.