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 Lesotho and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Bologna and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Camberwell Now to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bluetip,
Rod Modell,
Zero Boys,
Godley & Creme,
Stetsasonic,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kerri Chandler,
Make Up,
Faust,
Sam Rivers,
Lightning Bolt,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Crime,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Aswad,
the Fania All-Stars,
Johnny Osbourne,
Suburban Knight,
David Bowie,
The Grass Roots,
The Gun Club,
Todd Terry,
Interpol,
DNA,
Sandy B,
Spandau Ballet,
Intrusion,
The Divine Comedy,
U.S. Maple,
Absolute Body Control,
The Happenings,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
June Days,
The Barracudas,
The Shadows of Knight,
DJ Sneak,
The Gap Band,
10cc,
China Crisis,
Television,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Janne Schatter,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Fat Boys,
Urselle,
Barrington Levy,
Gregory Isaacs,
John Foxx,
The Cramps,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Quantec,
Visage,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
June of 44,
The Selecter,
Barry Ungar,
Dead Boys,
The Saints,
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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.