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 Liberia and from Delhi.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Sex Pistols to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Silicon Teens,
Tommy Roe,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Minny Pops,
Saccharine Trust,
Tears for Fears,
the Swans,
Sarah Menescal,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Sound,
Oblivians,
T. Rex,
Public Image Ltd.,
Alphaville,
The Blackbyrds,
Curtis Mayfield,
Stockholm Monsters,
Main Source,
Lyres,
The Real Kids,
the Sonics,
Dual Sessions,
The Selecter,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Liliput,
10cc,
K-Klass,
Kaleidoscope,
Davy DMX,
Trumans Water,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Stiv Bators,
DJ Sneak,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dawn Penn,
the Germs,
Magazine,
Vainqueur,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rakim,
The Busters,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Alton Ellis,
The Neon Judgement,
The Pretty Things,
the Association,
Can,
Josef K,
Rufus Thomas,
John Foxx,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jeff Lynne,
Derrick Morgan,
the Normal,
The Misunderstood,
Goldenarms,
Laurel Aitken,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.