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 Slovenia and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manila.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin 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 Intrusion to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Prince Buster,
The Cramps,
The Vogues,
Sound Behaviour,
Matthew Bourne,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sun Ra,
Rufus Thomas,
Wally Richardson,
Basic Channel,
The New Christs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mars,
Yellowson,
Guru Guru,
David Axelrod,
48th St. Collective,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kerrie Biddell,
Schoolly D,
Masters at Work,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Intrusion,
The Kinks,
Black Pus,
Procol Harum,
Eli Mardock,
Connie Case,
New Age Steppers,
Quando Quango,
Hasil Adkins,
Unrelated Segments,
R.M.O.,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Tremeloes,
Q and Not U,
Rites of Spring,
Rhythm & Sound,
Groovy Waters,
Neil Young,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Star Department,
Kaleidoscope,
Cecil Taylor,
Barry Ungar,
Scott Walker,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
John Holt,
Joy Division,
Amon Düül II,
The Litter,
ABC,
Anakelly,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lightning Bolt,
The Techniques,
The Human League,
Fluxion,
Tim Buckley,
Spandau Ballet,
The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C.
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.