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 Montenegro and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 Eden Ahbez to the rock 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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Womack tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Marcia Griffiths,
Tom Boy,
Ituana,
Lower 48,
PIL,
Arcadia,
Gang of Four,
Magazine,
Chrome,
The Angels of Light,
Throbbing Gristle,
Derrick May,
The Standells,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Neon Judgement,
Underground Resistance,
The New Christs,
Robert Wyatt,
The Searchers,
Crime,
Popol Vuh,
Ossler,
Minny Pops,
Erykah Badu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Piero Umiliani,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bootsy Collins,
Andrew Hill,
Organ,
James White and The Blacks,
Janne Schatter,
Warsaw,
Girls At Our Best!,
Stockholm Monsters,
Joy Division,
Sällskapet,
The Gap Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scion,
Man Parrish,
Ultimate Spinach,
Anthony Braxton,
Soulsonic Force,
The Young Rascals,
La Düsseldorf,
Thompson Twins,
Bobby Womack,
Japan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Spandau Ballet,
Fad Gadget,
Boredoms,
Bill Wells,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Moss Icon,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Fat Boys,
MC5,
Wasted Youth,
Lindisfarne,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.