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 Egypt and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sonic Youth to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Althea and Donna tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wings,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Camberwell Now,
Stetsasonic,
Bush Tetras,
Marine Girls,
Audionom,
10cc,
The Fortunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Buckinghams,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jerry's Kids,
Slave,
Al Stewart,
Johnny Clarke,
T. Rex,
Second Layer,
The Real Kids,
Dennis Brown,
H. Thieme,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scientists,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Eli Mardock,
Lindisfarne,
Deepchord,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Crooked Eye,
The Electric Prunes,
Jeff Lynne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kevin Saunderson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Agitation Free,
K-Klass,
The Motions,
Schoolly D,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Fire Engines,
Eric Copeland,
Eve St. Jones,
Wasted Youth,
Lou Reed,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Pretty Things,
The Angels of Light,
Eurythmics,
Scion,
Subhumans,
Juan Atkins,
D'Angelo,
Yellowson,
Banda Bassotti,
Brothers Johnson,
Ten City,
Ludus,
John Foxx,
Prince Buster,
Newcleus,
T.S.O.L.,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.