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 Salvador.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Maleditus Sound to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Vladislav Delay,
Sarah Menescal,
Bluetip,
Althea and Donna,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Terry Callier,
Big Daddy Kane,
Cameo,
Max Romeo,
The Victims,
Make Up,
Brass Construction,
La Düsseldorf,
a-ha,
Idris Muhammad,
Public Enemy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
X-101,
10cc,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Icehouse,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Scan 7,
Altered Images,
Pylon,
Excepter,
Y Pants,
Black Bananas,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Human League,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Moss Icon,
Aswad,
Ronan,
The New Christs,
The Fire Engines,
Black Pus,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Magma,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nico,
Matthew Bourne,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Anthony Braxton,
Mission of Burma,
Lucky Dragons,
Flipper,
The Count Five,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Skaos,
Angry Samoans,
Popol Vuh,
Kenny Larkin,
Khruangbin,
Kool Moe Dee,
Radiohead,
Wings,
Alphaville,
Kevin Saunderson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.