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 Indonesia and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Arab on Radar to the grime 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 The Black Dice. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tres Demented 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
X-Ray Spex,
Godley & Creme,
The Motions,
The Durutti Column,
Anakelly,
Buzzcocks,
One Last Wish,
The Grass Roots,
Intrusion,
Colin Newman,
The Cure,
Icehouse,
Ponytail,
The Misunderstood,
Nico,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sparks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Theoretical Girls,
New Age Steppers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mark Hollis,
Mantronix,
The Moleskins,
Morten Harket,
Technova,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Spandau Ballet,
Fifty Foot Hose,
June Days,
Radiohead,
Camouflage,
Whodini,
Lakeside,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Skriet,
The Pretty Things,
Marc Almond,
Skarface,
Lou Christie,
the Slits,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Surgeon,
Black Pus,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Neu!,
Shoche,
The Modern Lovers,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Human League,
Hasil Adkins,
Josef K,
Lou Reed,
The Cowsills,
The Velvet Underground,
Janne Schatter,
Blossom Toes,
Lindisfarne,
Quadrant,
Babytalk,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.