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 Guinea and from Jakarta.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 DJ Style to the rock 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Von Mondo,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Real Kids,
Quantec,
Rufus Thomas,
Cluster,
Camberwell Now,
The Shadows of Knight,
Crooked Eye,
Agent Orange,
Public Enemy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Prince Buster,
Adolescents,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cameo,
One Last Wish,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Martian,
Bang On A Can,
Sonic Youth,
Lucky Dragons,
Saccharine Trust,
B.T. Express,
Bootsy Collins,
The Residents,
Carl Craig,
Mandrill,
Kerri Chandler,
Joey Negro,
Sight & Sound,
The Busters,
the Soft Cell,
Matthew Halsall,
Intrusion,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Delon & Dalcan,
KRS-One,
Anthony Braxton,
Derrick Morgan,
Kenny Larkin,
Kurtis Blow,
Toni Rubio,
UT,
Shuggie Otis,
Ultra Naté,
The Associates,
Urselle,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
Terrestrial Tones,
10cc,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Vladislav Delay,
Dawn Penn,
Buzzcocks,
Infiniti,
Erasure,
Quando Quango,
Anakelly,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.