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 Nauru and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Donald Fagen 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 Derrick Morgan to the rock 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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
The Divine Comedy,
Eden Ahbez,
L. Decosne,
The Vogues,
The Doobie Brothers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Basic Channel,
Howard Jones,
Underground Resistance,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gang Starr,
Sight & Sound,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Evens,
Colin Newman,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Blackbyrds,
D'Angelo,
Marvin Gaye,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Gap Band,
Gong,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aswad,
The Alarm Clocks,
Faust,
David Axelrod,
Anakelly,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Blake Baxter,
The Fuzztones,
Essential Logic,
June Days,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Echospace,
Susan Cadogan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Trojans,
X-101,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Searchers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sam Rivers,
Franke,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Shoche,
Lou Christie,
Gregory Isaacs,
Moss Icon,
Man Eating Sloth,
Suicide,
Urselle,
Thompson Twins,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Monochrome Set,
David McCallum,
Ultravox,
The Cure,
Fela Kuti,
Boogie Down Productions,
Masters at Work,
Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget.
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.