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 Bahrain and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Stockholm.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fat Boys. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smiths,
DJ Style,
Derrick Morgan,
Sällskapet,
Leonard Cohen,
Echospace,
Danielle Patucci,
Sun City Girls,
The Skatalites,
Sexual Harrassment,
Fear,
Lalann,
Mantronix,
Reagan Youth,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sugar Minott,
The Slackers,
Marvin Gaye,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Mission of Burma,
The Fire Engines,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dennis Brown,
Soul II Soul,
Sun Ra,
Soulsonic Force,
Spandau Ballet,
Ludus,
Desert Stars,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Wasted Youth,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Robert Wyatt,
Pet Shop Boys,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Standells,
The Red Krayola,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ituana,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
James White and The Blacks,
B.T. Express,
cv313,
The Motions,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Star Department,
John Coltrane,
Hashim,
Ultra Naté,
The Real Kids,
The J.B.'s,
Supertramp,
Vainqueur,
The Black Dice,
Banda Bassotti,
The Beau Brummels,
The Gories,
This Heat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.