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 Cambodia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Taipei.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Moleskins to the funk 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deadbeat,
Sun City Girls,
Roger Hodgson,
Davy DMX,
the Normal,
Warren Ellis,
Q and Not U,
Q65,
Derrick Morgan,
Liliput,
Iggy Pop,
The Smiths,
Idris Muhammad,
Ice-T,
Dennis Brown,
Brothers Johnson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Marshall Jefferson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ituana,
The Tremeloes,
New Order,
The Modern Lovers,
Rekid,
Talk Talk,
Judy Mowatt,
Radiohead,
Eli Mardock,
Country Teasers,
John Cale,
Blake Baxter,
Alton Ellis,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bad Manners,
Lakeside,
Dorothy Ashby,
Todd Terry,
LL Cool J,
JFA,
Sixth Finger,
Leonard Cohen,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fuzztones,
The Cure,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Gories,
The Walker Brothers,
Barry Ungar,
Morten Harket,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Althea and Donna,
Symarip,
Grey Daturas,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jesper Dahlback,
X-Ray Spex,
Saccharine Trust,
Dave Gahan,
La Düsseldorf,
Steve Hackett,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.