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 Tuvalu and from Edmonton.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Warren Ellis to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Sugar Minott,
Tears for Fears,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jacob Miller,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fatback Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Half Japanese,
June Days,
Bang On A Can,
Slave,
The Raincoats,
Ralphi Rosario,
Aaron Thompson,
The Sound,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
ABC,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sound Behaviour,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Coltrane,
Man Eating Sloth,
Crooked Eye,
The Fugs,
Tommy Roe,
Gong,
Skriet,
Sexual Harrassment,
Hardrive,
Boredoms,
Scrapy,
Guru Guru,
Grauzone,
Blancmange,
Tomorrow,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sparks,
Sonic Youth,
Crime,
EPMD,
the Soft Cell,
Junior Murvin,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kevin Saunderson,
Howard Jones,
Ronnie Foster,
Cheater Slicks,
Oblivians,
Loose Ends,
Prince Buster,
Lebanon Hanover,
MDC,
Nils Olav,
Marc Almond,
Shoche,
John Lydon,
The Human League,
Chris & Cosey,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.