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 Vietnam and from Calgary.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bobby Byrd to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Banda Bassotti,
The Saints,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pierre Henry,
Nick Fraelich,
Essential Logic,
Minor Threat,
Von Mondo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dark Day,
Funkadelic,
Adolescents,
Popol Vuh,
Parry Music,
These Immortal Souls,
Howard Jones,
Wire,
Al Stewart,
Junior Murvin,
David Axelrod,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alton Ellis,
The Techniques,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rufus Thomas,
Jacques Brel,
Fugazi,
The Moody Blues,
the Germs,
The Doobie Brothers,
New Age Steppers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Silicon Teens,
The Pretty Things,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bluetip,
Alice Coltrane,
Derrick Morgan,
Newcleus,
Fluxion,
Jesper Dahlback,
Camberwell Now,
Slave,
Average White Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Aswad,
Eli Mardock,
Althea and Donna,
EPMD,
The Pop Group,
Inner City,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Aloha Tigers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mo-Dettes,
Hashim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roy Ayers,
Black Bananas,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.