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 Taiwan and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Loose Ends to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane 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?
Bootsy Collins,
Grandmaster Flash,
Clear Light,
Talk Talk,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Alton Ellis,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Trojans,
Supertramp,
Model 500,
Skriet,
Quantec,
Yazoo,
Nirvana,
Sonic Youth,
Pylon,
Second Layer,
Amazonics,
Terry Callier,
E-Dancer,
The Monochrome Set,
Yaz,
Brand Nubian,
Scrapy,
Lower 48,
Eddi Front,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Wally Richardson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Tremeloes,
The Modern Lovers,
The Saints,
Funkadelic,
Janne Schatter,
Bluetip,
Zapp,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Whodini,
Sound Behaviour,
Harmonia,
The Gladiators,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Move,
Alphaville,
Judy Mowatt,
The Smiths,
PIL,
Ultra Naté,
The Blues Magoos,
Khruangbin,
Y Pants,
Intrusion,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Radiohead,
Suburban Knight,
Underground Resistance,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Moleskins,
The Blackbyrds,
Flamin' Groovies,
Throbbing Gristle,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.