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 Panama and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar 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 Hardrive to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Brand Nubian,
Althea and Donna,
Bronski Beat,
Crash Course in Science,
Jeff Lynne,
The Modern Lovers,
Thee Headcoats,
Buzzcocks,
Swell Maps,
Johnny Clarke,
The Golliwogs,
Roy Ayers,
the Slits,
Peter and Kerry,
Drive Like Jehu,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gastr Del Sol,
Hasil Adkins,
The Smiths,
Agitation Free,
DJ Style,
The Red Krayola,
Joy Division,
Malaria!,
Pussy Galore,
Warsaw,
The Grass Roots,
Traffic Nightmare,
Inner City,
Moebius,
Motorama,
Talk Talk,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Barry Ungar,
Television Personalities,
Bobby Sherman,
Judy Mowatt,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Quando Quango,
Qualms,
Cal Tjader,
Cameo,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pole,
the Soft Cell,
Infiniti,
Boz Scaggs,
Matthew Bourne,
cv313,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Human League,
Pere Ubu,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Icehouse,
Niagra,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.