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 Tanzania and from Bremen.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fugazi to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Radio Birdman,
8 Eyed Spy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marine Girls,
Yellowson,
OOIOO,
Dawn Penn,
Kenny Larkin,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Flipper,
Jeff Mills,
Arthur Verocai,
Bobby Womack,
ABC,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sound Behaviour,
Glenn Branca,
Oneida,
The Monochrome Set,
Spoonie Gee,
FM Einheit,
Peter & Gordon,
EPMD,
the Swans,
Isaac Hayes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scan 7,
Todd Terry,
Fugazi,
The Human League,
Heaven 17,
Jandek,
Vainqueur,
Qualms,
Nico,
Zapp,
Unrelated Segments,
Jesper Dahlback,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Remains,
The Real Kids,
Crash Course in Science,
DJ Sneak,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Steve Hackett,
Minutemen,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mo-Dettes,
Basic Channel,
Stockholm Monsters,
Reagan Youth,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Cramps,
Public Image Ltd.,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Saccharine Trust,
Bad Manners,
The Doors,
Cybotron,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.