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 Comoros and from London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 linndrum 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 Audionom to the techno 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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis 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?
Erykah Badu,
Procol Harum,
Yaz,
The Smiths,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Slits,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
China Crisis,
These Immortal Souls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Misunderstood,
Charles Mingus,
Tom Boy,
David McCallum,
Roxy Music,
Tears for Fears,
Ponytail,
The Gun Club,
The Cure,
Lucky Dragons,
Piero Umiliani,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Offenders,
Nico,
Shuggie Otis,
The Litter,
The Moleskins,
Soul II Soul,
Groovy Waters,
John Foxx,
DJ Sneak,
Joey Negro,
Jeff Lynne,
Jacob Miller,
Amon Düül II,
Jesper Dahlback,
Q65,
Minutemen,
Jeru the Damaja,
Neu!,
The Dead C,
Technova,
Urselle,
Bauhaus,
Grey Daturas,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
a-ha,
The Leaves,
Idris Muhammad,
Hardrive,
Second Layer,
kango's stein massive,
Crime,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ralphi Rosario,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The American Breed,
The Detroit Cobras,
Q and Not U,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Germs,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.