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 Jamaica and from Mexico City.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Tom Boy to the dance 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The American Breed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Todd Terry,
Motorama,
The Cramps,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Massinfluence,
Surgeon,
Half Japanese,
Joensuu 1685,
Sister Nancy,
Echospace,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Moss Icon,
Stockholm Monsters,
Barbara Tucker,
Black Moon,
World's Most,
The Mojo Men,
Laurel Aitken,
Idris Muhammad,
Skarface,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
June Days,
Kool Moe Dee,
Traffic Nightmare,
Altered Images,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magazine,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lindisfarne,
Urselle,
The United States of America,
The Busters,
Saccharine Trust,
Frankie Knuckles,
Connie Case,
PIL,
China Crisis,
Fela Kuti,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
T.S.O.L.,
Con Funk Shun,
Camberwell Now,
Eddi Front,
Steve Hackett,
Arthur Verocai,
Warsaw,
Tropical Tobacco,
Reagan Youth,
Easy Going,
Kurtis Blow,
Matthew Halsall,
the Germs,
Howard Jones,
Erykah Badu,
Model 500,
K-Klass,
Metal Thangz,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.