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 Solomon Islands and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 sitar 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 Beasts of Bourbon to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Supertramp,
Roxy Music,
Anthony Braxton,
Goldenarms,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Tim Buckley,
Spandau Ballet,
Icehouse,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Techniques,
Howard Jones,
Faraquet,
The Modern Lovers,
The Monochrome Set,
The Sound,
the Bar-Kays,
The Real Kids,
Public Image Ltd.,
Erykah Badu,
Mandrill,
Harry Pussy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rites of Spring,
Wire,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Technova,
The Kinks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lou Christie,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sister Nancy,
Black Sheep,
Warsaw,
Roger Hodgson,
Mantronix,
Jacques Brel,
Trumans Water,
Mission of Burma,
Nick Fraelich,
Country Teasers,
Altered Images,
Subhumans,
X-102,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Cymande,
Grauzone,
Sight & Sound,
Jacob Miller,
Lower 48,
Skriet,
Unwound,
Alton Ellis,
Laurel Aitken,
the Human League,
X-101,
Can,
The Detroit Cobras,
Josef K,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Banda Bassotti,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.