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 Barbados and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 linndrum 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 Dennis Brown to the grime 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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Janne Schatter,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Quando Quango,
Youth Brigade,
Black Bananas,
Yaz,
Unrelated Segments,
Section 25,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sonic Youth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rosa Yemen,
Hoover,
Warsaw,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Max Romeo,
Swans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Blancmange,
Rakim,
Khruangbin,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Easy Going,
Black Flag,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Newcleus,
Tubeway Army,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ornette Coleman,
Sonny Sharrock,
Soft Cell,
The Busters,
Soul II Soul,
Sister Nancy,
Joe Finger,
The Divine Comedy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
48th St. Collective,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Doors,
Spoonie Gee,
Grandmaster Flash,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dave Gahan,
Parry Music,
Lou Christie,
Yazoo,
Oblivians,
Au Pairs,
The Gun Club,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Monochrome Set,
Iggy Pop,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Blues Magoos,
Delta 5,
Charles Mingus,
Lou Reed,
Rotary Connection,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.