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 Yemen and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 808 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 Gerry Rafferty to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pierre Henry,
Bronski Beat,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lungfish,
The Shadows of Knight,
Amazonics,
OOIOO,
The Leaves,
Rakim,
Soul Sonic Force,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Slackers,
Arab on Radar,
Roger Hodgson,
Robert Wyatt,
8 Eyed Spy,
John Lydon,
Erasure,
Reuben Wilson,
Oblivians,
The Knickerbockers,
Eric Dolphy,
Robert Görl,
The Trojans,
Ohio Players,
Rites of Spring,
New Order,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Soulsonic Force,
K-Klass,
Adolescents,
Black Pus,
Neil Young,
Electric Prunes,
Ponytail,
John Cale,
Deepchord,
The Five Americans,
Von Mondo,
Eddi Front,
Dave Gahan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
New Age Steppers,
The Saints,
The American Breed,
Connie Case,
Anakelly,
Slave,
The J.B.'s,
Saccharine Trust,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Spandau Ballet,
Michelle Simonal,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roxy Music,
Byron Stingily,
Traffic Nightmare,
EPMD,
Scratch Acid,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.