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 Bahrain and from Sao Paulo.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Drexciya to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 48th St. Collective 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Depeche Mode,
John Cale,
Peter & Gordon,
Dawn Penn,
Eli Mardock,
Rosa Yemen,
Bizarre Inc.,
David McCallum,
The Birthday Party,
X-102,
Idris Muhammad,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Urselle,
Section 25,
Erasure,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Roxy Music,
Technova,
Sixth Finger,
Skriet,
Grey Daturas,
The Slits,
The Durutti Column,
The Five Americans,
The Sonics,
Pet Shop Boys,
Au Pairs,
Oblivians,
Aaron Thompson,
Henry Cow,
Tubeway Army,
Fat Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moss Icon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jacques Brel,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
John Holt,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jeff Lynne,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mo-Dettes,
Faraquet,
Shoche,
The Trojans,
Isaac Hayes,
Michelle Simonal,
Donny Hathaway,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dennis Brown,
Lucky Dragons,
Monolake,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
MC5,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.