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 Swaziland and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Soft Cell to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
The Birthday Party,
Kevin Saunderson,
David McCallum,
Kerri Chandler,
Black Sheep,
a-ha,
Iggy Pop,
ABC,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bad Manners,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gerry Rafferty,
Chrome,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bill Wells,
Sound Behaviour,
Max Romeo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Underground Resistance,
Minutemen,
Goldenarms,
KRS-One,
Soul Sonic Force,
Connie Case,
Skarface,
Ponytail,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Gladiators,
Ken Boothe,
Flipper,
Anthony Braxton,
Ossler,
Oblivians,
CMW,
Cal Tjader,
The Vogues,
Eli Mardock,
The Litter,
Sugar Minott,
The Techniques,
Minnie Riperton,
Lightning Bolt,
U.S. Maple,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Trojans,
Charles Mingus,
Todd Terry,
The Sound,
Youth Brigade,
Young Marble Giants,
Rufus Thomas,
Maurizio,
Eddi Front,
Carl Craig,
Roxy Music,
The Raincoats,
Mary Jane Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Henry Cow,
Silicon Teens,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tommy Roe,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.