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 Ecuador and from Accra.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lungfish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tears for Fears,
The Human League,
Boogie Down Productions,
This Heat,
Fear,
Theoretical Girls,
Maleditus Sound,
Shuggie Otis,
Radio Birdman,
Public Image Ltd.,
New Age Steppers,
Henry Cow,
Colin Newman,
Faust,
Delta 5,
The Leaves,
Scrapy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Barclay James Harvest,
Warsaw,
L. Decosne,
Pet Shop Boys,
Danielle Patucci,
Piero Umiliani,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Litter,
The Offenders,
John Foxx,
Matthew Bourne,
Charles Mingus,
Carl Craig,
Fad Gadget,
Archie Shepp,
Ossler,
Blossom Toes,
Funkadelic,
Tubeway Army,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
James White and The Blacks,
Ultra Naté,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Thompson Twins,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ituana,
Marcia Griffiths,
Don Cherry,
Depeche Mode,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Technova,
Newcleus,
The Grass Roots,
Excepter,
Brothers Johnson,
Clear Light,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.