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 Luxembourg and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Icehouse to the rap 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 The Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Index,
Underground Resistance,
Talk Talk,
Unrelated Segments,
Schoolly D,
Lindisfarne,
LL Cool J,
ABBA,
The Mummies,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bobby Sherman,
Animal Collective,
Yellowson,
Mandrill,
Youth Brigade,
R.M.O.,
Massinfluence,
Sixth Finger,
Juan Atkins,
Bootsy Collins,
Wings,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fad Gadget,
The Searchers,
The Gladiators,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Faraquet,
Swell Maps,
Amon Düül II,
Sun Ra,
Kurtis Blow,
Organ,
Marvin Gaye,
Piero Umiliani,
Khruangbin,
T.S.O.L.,
Quando Quango,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Duran Duran,
Black Pus,
The Stooges,
Buzzcocks,
Model 500,
Mantronix,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sandy B,
Mad Mike,
Cluster,
D'Angelo,
Isaac Hayes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Niagra,
Pagans,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.