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 Greece and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joe Finger,
Quando Quango,
Barrington Levy,
Buzzcocks,
Faraquet,
Prince Buster,
Eddi Front,
Echospace,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Boredoms,
Derrick Morgan,
Alphaville,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Carl Craig,
Danielle Patucci,
Skarface,
Inner City,
Gong,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Clear Light,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Isaac Hayes,
La Düsseldorf,
Ornette Coleman,
Suburban Knight,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Soft Cell,
Agitation Free,
Con Funk Shun,
Iggy Pop,
Average White Band,
Heaven 17,
The Toasters,
Cluster,
Marvin Gaye,
Public Enemy,
K-Klass,
Pantaleimon,
Babytalk,
KRS-One,
Scrapy,
Neil Young,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Freddie Wadling,
Max Romeo,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bronski Beat,
Gerry Rafferty,
Terry Callier,
Rekid,
The Kinks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rapeman,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mr. Review,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Niagra,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Mojo Men,
Urselle,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.