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 Albania and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mexico City.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Music Machine to the crunk 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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover 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 an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Intrusion,
Mission of Burma,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moody Blues,
the Human League,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Saints,
Barrington Levy,
The Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Glambeats Corp.,
Soul Sonic Force,
Isaac Hayes,
June of 44,
Barbara Tucker,
The Fugs,
Morten Harket,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Leonard Cohen,
Sun City Girls,
Arthur Verocai,
Second Layer,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pulsallama,
JFA,
Boredoms,
A Certain Ratio,
Magma,
Rufus Thomas,
Bauhaus,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
ABBA,
Howard Jones,
Bizarre Inc.,
Avey Tare,
Jeff Lynne,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Moby Grape,
Visage,
The Selecter,
Monolake,
Crash Course in Science,
Porter Ricks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Los Fastidios,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Malaria!,
The Fall,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Happenings,
The Divine Comedy,
Siglo XX,
Organ,
Sister Nancy,
Tomorrow,
The Beau Brummels,
OOIOO,
Symarip, Symarip, Symarip, Symarip.
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.