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 Canada and from Lyon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manchester.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kerrie Biddell to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blancmange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
Circle Jerks,
ABBA,
Saccharine Trust,
Dual Sessions,
Model 500,
Rotary Connection,
The United States of America,
Malaria!,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lower 48,
The Cure,
Arab on Radar,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Black Flag,
Radiohead,
Cluster,
Grauzone,
Bobby Byrd,
The Buckinghams,
The Kinks,
The Star Department,
Bobby Womack,
Kayak,
Bad Manners,
MDC,
Minnie Riperton,
Don Cherry,
A Certain Ratio,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
R.M.O.,
Bush Tetras,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Porter Ricks,
Make Up,
Black Sheep,
Pierre Henry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kas Product,
the Human League,
Anthony Braxton,
Severed Heads,
Robert Wyatt,
Accadde A,
Roxy Music,
Isaac Hayes,
OOIOO,
Black Bananas,
Tubeway Army,
Joyce Sims,
Junior Murvin,
Marine Girls,
Sound Behaviour,
Ituana,
Traffic Nightmare,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Icehouse,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Groovy Waters,
Agent Orange,
Dark Day,
Index,
The Wake, The Wake, The Wake, The Wake.
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.