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 Guyana and from London.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Essential Logic to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Talk Talk,
Metal Thangz,
Judy Mowatt,
Dual Sessions,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jeff Mills,
The Invisible,
Fluxion,
Bronski Beat,
Youth Brigade,
Brass Construction,
Arab on Radar,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Leaves,
Rod Modell,
Sound Behaviour,
FM Einheit,
Hashim,
Camouflage,
Idris Muhammad,
Stereo Dub,
Funky Four + One,
Visage,
Eden Ahbez,
Gregory Isaacs,
In Retrospect,
Maleditus Sound,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Slits,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
June Days,
Unrelated Segments,
Marmalade,
Das Ding,
Ken Boothe,
Scientists,
Marine Girls,
Smog,
The Names,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jerry's Kids,
Crooked Eye,
Lebanon Hanover,
Silicon Teens,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kas Product,
China Crisis,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Mo-Dettes,
The Buckinghams,
K-Klass,
The Skatalites,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Audionom,
Warsaw,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Harmonia,
Archie Shepp,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.