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 Yemen and from Philadelphia.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba 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 Stetsasonic to the jazz 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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
China Crisis,
Unrelated Segments,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Junior Murvin,
Minor Threat,
Drexciya,
The Gap Band,
The Star Department,
Reuben Wilson,
Mission of Burma,
Second Layer,
Pole,
David Axelrod,
Massinfluence,
Clear Light,
the Normal,
Sugar Minott,
Ice-T,
Duran Duran,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Pretty Things,
Lindisfarne,
The Saints,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Crooked Eye,
Anakelly,
Josef K,
Gang Green,
The Evens,
Jerry's Kids,
Minutemen,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Maleditus Sound,
Organ,
Ken Boothe,
Andrew Hill,
kango's stein massive,
The United States of America,
Janne Schatter,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Stereo Dub,
Bobby Byrd,
Newcleus,
A Certain Ratio,
Thompson Twins,
X-101,
the Human League,
Matthew Bourne,
Neu!,
The American Breed,
Negative Approach,
Talk Talk,
The Grass Roots,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mr. Review,
Matthew Halsall,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.