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 Somalia and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Mummies to the grunge 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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Aaron Thompson,
Eve St. Jones,
Goldenarms,
Ten City,
Rapeman,
Flash Fearless,
Janne Schatter,
Das Ding,
The Move,
The Flesh Eaters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Morten Harket,
PIL,
The Black Dice,
Donald Byrd,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Skarface,
The Neon Judgement,
Heaven 17,
Todd Rundgren,
Duran Duran,
Kas Product,
Byron Stingily,
X-102,
Traffic Nightmare,
Wire,
The Barracudas,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Human League,
Infiniti,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lalann,
The Mojo Men,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Deepchord,
Neil Young,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gladiators,
The Mummies,
Black Pus,
Sister Nancy,
Laurel Aitken,
Scientists,
The Pop Group,
Scott Walker,
Davy DMX,
Susan Cadogan,
Eurythmics,
Tubeway Army,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Doors,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Oneida,
DJ Sneak,
The Fire Engines,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Iggy Pop,
Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson.
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.