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 Czech Republic and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the rock 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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
Bobby Sherman,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tom Boy,
Sonic Youth,
The Motions,
The Toasters,
Dave Gahan,
The Victims,
Talk Talk,
Charles Mingus,
The Move,
Chris Corsano,
Eddi Front,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mission of Burma,
Banda Bassotti,
Lou Christie,
The Blackbyrds,
Subhumans,
Nico,
Tommy Roe,
DJ Style,
Carl Craig,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bronski Beat,
Quadrant,
Vladislav Delay,
Symarip,
Dawn Penn,
Cameo,
the Soft Cell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Whodini,
The Techniques,
Andrew Hill,
Eurythmics,
Youth Brigade,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Television Personalities,
Eli Mardock,
Marmalade,
The Wake,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Real Kids,
The Black Dice,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
F. McDonald,
Man Eating Sloth,
Crash Course in Science,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Animal Collective,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Slave,
Roxette,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.