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 Chile and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Barbara Tucker to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All kango's stein massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Barracudas,
Guru Guru,
The American Breed,
Sandy B,
Kurtis Blow,
Black Sheep,
World's Most,
Michelle Simonal,
Camouflage,
Chrome,
Robert Wyatt,
The Count Five,
The Trojans,
Lucky Dragons,
Monolake,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Quantec,
Sound Behaviour,
Sun City Girls,
Soft Cell,
The Kinks,
Leonard Cohen,
Marmalade,
Roy Ayers,
Joensuu 1685,
8 Eyed Spy,
Unrelated Segments,
Erasure,
The Fugs,
Sonic Youth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Dirtbombs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Don Cherry,
ABC,
Roxy Music,
Reuben Wilson,
Liliput,
Little Man,
The Dead C,
Scientists,
Fluxion,
The Monks,
Blancmange,
Can,
Rakim,
The Pretty Things,
Das Ding,
Kevin Saunderson,
Boz Scaggs,
Glenn Branca,
Livin' Joy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bush Tetras,
Fear,
Janne Schatter,
MDC,
Ronnie Foster,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.