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 Yemen and from Winnipeg.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Rhythm & Sound to the grunge 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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Dead Boys,
Tubeway Army,
Sonic Youth,
Archie Shepp,
Kas Product,
Bluetip,
Flamin' Groovies,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rod Modell,
The Trojans,
Johnny Osbourne,
Liliput,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Vladislav Delay,
Yusef Lateef,
Gang Starr,
Alice Coltrane,
Kevin Saunderson,
Nils Olav,
Surgeon,
Dark Day,
Trumans Water,
Ponytail,
Matthew Halsall,
Television Personalities,
Hashim,
Gang Gang Dance,
Vainqueur,
Thee Headcoats,
The Victims,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Cybotron,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Buckinghams,
Shuggie Otis,
Visage,
The Cramps,
the Germs,
The Music Machine,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Dave Clark Five,
Stereo Dub,
Circle Jerks,
Basic Channel,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Buzzcocks,
Rotary Connection,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Misunderstood,
Jeff Lynne,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Young Rascals,
Whodini,
The Barracudas,
The Gap Band,
Angry Samoans,
Peter & Gordon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ken Boothe,
Jeff Mills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.