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 Malaysia and from Columbus.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 rhodes 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 Procol Harum to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Tommy Roe,
PIL,
T. Rex,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Hasil Adkins,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Chris & Cosey,
The Associates,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Fela Kuti,
Wire,
Bauhaus,
Davy DMX,
Joyce Sims,
Throbbing Gristle,
Zero Boys,
Joe Finger,
Juan Atkins,
Shoche,
The Remains,
Brass Construction,
Nik Kershaw,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
Morten Harket,
The Smoke,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
In Retrospect,
the Bar-Kays,
Althea and Donna,
Maleditus Sound,
Nick Fraelich,
Barry Ungar,
Aaron Thompson,
Outsiders,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
KRS-One,
Scott Walker,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Red Krayola,
Ice-T,
Eddi Front,
Symarip,
Deakin,
Reagan Youth,
Fear,
X-Ray Spex,
Pet Shop Boys,
Boz Scaggs,
Blossom Toes,
Buzzcocks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ken Boothe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Faust,
E-Dancer,
Niagra, Niagra, Niagra, Niagra.
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.