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 Libya and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 sitar 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 The Gladiators to the disco 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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Agitation Free 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?
Ronnie Foster,
Scientists,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rufus Thomas,
Siglo XX,
Roger Hodgson,
Thompson Twins,
Scan 7,
The Divine Comedy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Underground Resistance,
The Motions,
Niagra,
The Durutti Column,
Minutemen,
Scrapy,
Judy Mowatt,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Quantec,
June of 44,
Mantronix,
The Fortunes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nas,
Arab on Radar,
The Stooges,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Oblivians,
Glenn Branca,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Simply Red,
The Cramps,
Mary Jane Girls,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Flipper,
Althea and Donna,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Toni Rubio,
Minny Pops,
Aswad,
The Electric Prunes,
Mark Hollis,
Sound Behaviour,
The Misunderstood,
Arcadia,
Saccharine Trust,
Rites of Spring,
Johnny Clarke,
Matthew Bourne,
The Invisible,
Alice Coltrane,
The Slackers,
The Tremeloes,
Rekid,
Peter and Kerry,
Nils Olav,
Das Ding,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Cluster,
Joy Division,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.