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 Equatorial Guinea and from Mexico City.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 chamberlin 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 London Community Gospel Choir to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Peter & Gordon,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Doors,
Hashim,
Avey Tare,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Main Source,
The Gap Band,
Supertramp,
Hardrive,
ABC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Agent Orange,
Warren Ellis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Aural Exciters,
Soft Machine,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Grass Roots,
Masters at Work,
Black Sheep,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Henry Cow,
Deadbeat,
CMW,
Delta 5,
Quando Quango,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Magazine,
Bill Wells,
Ponytail,
Sparks,
Sonic Youth,
The Mummies,
Darondo,
DJ Sneak,
Anthony Braxton,
Alphaville,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pussy Galore,
X-Ray Spex,
Barry Ungar,
Public Enemy,
The Remains,
Gong,
The Smoke,
Sarah Menescal,
The Zeros,
AZ,
Symarip,
Popol Vuh,
Rotary Connection,
Ornette Coleman,
Make Up,
Stereo Dub,
Black Bananas,
Au Pairs,
Moby Grape,
The Moleskins,
Monolake,
Little Man,
a-ha, a-ha, a-ha, a-ha.
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.