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 Georgia and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Camberwell Now to the grime 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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
The Selecter,
Kool Moe Dee,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bad Manners,
Lightning Bolt,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Evens,
The Human League,
Pierre Henry,
Funkadelic,
Erasure,
Nirvana,
Dawn Penn,
Pylon,
These Immortal Souls,
Black Moon,
Gabor Szabo,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Curtis Mayfield,
June Days,
Faraquet,
The Gun Club,
The Fire Engines,
Pole,
The Residents,
D'Angelo,
10cc,
Hashim,
Suicide,
the Soft Cell,
Lower 48,
Sixth Finger,
Easy Going,
Theoretical Girls,
Prince Buster,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Kenny Larkin,
Fad Gadget,
Crash Course in Science,
Erykah Badu,
The Barracudas,
The Remains,
LL Cool J,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
U.S. Maple,
Gichy Dan,
Glenn Branca,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pet Shop Boys,
Minny Pops,
Kaleidoscope,
Radio Birdman,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dead Boys,
The Fall,
Soft Cell,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Cure,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.