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 Slovakia and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 chamberlin 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the grime 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Freddie Wadling record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Half Japanese,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marcia Griffiths,
Q and Not U,
Cal Tjader,
Jacob Miller,
Dawn Penn,
kango's stein massive,
The Residents,
Quando Quango,
ABC,
The Kinks,
Silicon Teens,
Lightning Bolt,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
CMW,
Peter and Kerry,
Dave Gahan,
Negative Approach,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Yazoo,
Robert Görl,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lou Reed,
KRS-One,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Camberwell Now,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kerrie Biddell,
Audionom,
Kurtis Blow,
Donald Byrd,
Harmonia,
Swell Maps,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scott Walker,
Alphaville,
F. McDonald,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Porter Ricks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Stereo Dub,
Piero Umiliani,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cure,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Vladislav Delay,
Radio Birdman,
The Moleskins,
The Black Dice,
The Fortunes,
Ultra Naté,
These Immortal Souls,
JFA,
Aloha Tigers,
the Human League,
Theoretical Girls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lindisfarne,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.