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 Cuba and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Minor Threat to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Sarah Menescal,
Isaac Hayes,
Joyce Sims,
Schoolly D,
Erykah Badu,
Wings,
Prince Buster,
Donny Hathaway,
Don Cherry,
Pylon,
Pagans,
World's Most,
Bill Wells,
Goldenarms,
Brass Construction,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tom Boy,
The Mojo Men,
Crime,
Rosa Yemen,
Anakelly,
The Electric Prunes,
Sixth Finger,
Pantytec,
Basic Channel,
Al Stewart,
Mars,
X-101,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mo-Dettes,
New Age Steppers,
Niagra,
Hashim,
Shuggie Otis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eden Ahbez,
Pere Ubu,
Lindisfarne,
This Heat,
The Blackbyrds,
Electric Prunes,
The Barracudas,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Smiths,
Whodini,
Spoonie Gee,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Yellowson,
Zapp,
Magazine,
Ossler,
the Sonics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Sonics,
Joy Division,
Gabor Szabo,
ABBA,
Talk Talk,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Martian, The Martian, The Martian, The Martian.
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.