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 Dominican Republic and from Beijing.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kango’s Stein Massive to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Donald Byrd,
Q and Not U,
The Leaves,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Radiohead,
JFA,
Thompson Twins,
Deakin,
Sex Pistols,
The Walker Brothers,
Fluxion,
Derrick Morgan,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Swans,
Boz Scaggs,
Oneida,
Danielle Patucci,
Skaos,
Sparks,
John Lydon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Howard Jones,
Bobby Sherman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Faraquet,
Lee Hazlewood,
Prince Buster,
Joe Smooth,
Arthur Verocai,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Infiniti,
The Modern Lovers,
Aaron Thompson,
Siglo XX,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Red Krayola,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Half Japanese,
Deepchord,
Television Personalities,
Von Mondo,
The Seeds,
Boredoms,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sonny Sharrock,
Newcleus,
The Dead C,
Lungfish,
Tommy Roe,
Flash Fearless,
The Motions,
Lower 48,
The Divine Comedy,
Roxy Music,
The Names,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.