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 Togo and from Lille.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Gerry Rafferty to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
The Slackers,
Avey Tare,
Soft Cell,
Dark Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Count Five,
June of 44,
Von Mondo,
Pylon,
Heaven 17,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Mummies,
The Neon Judgement,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mo-Dettes,
JFA,
The Toasters,
Icehouse,
Pharoah Sanders,
Byron Stingily,
Oneida,
The Dave Clark Five,
Warren Ellis,
The Motions,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Max Romeo,
Blancmange,
Ludus,
Radio Birdman,
Bootsy Collins,
the Soft Cell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eric B and Rakim,
Delon & Dalcan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
H. Thieme,
Negative Approach,
Panda Bear,
Kenny Larkin,
Chris Corsano,
Danielle Patucci,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Inner City,
Jandek,
Todd Terry,
Mantronix,
Frankie Knuckles,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Spandau Ballet,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lungfish,
Traffic Nightmare,
Cecil Taylor,
Hardrive,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bill Near,
Jimmy McGriff,
Scan 7,
The Blues Magoos,
ABBA,
Lalann,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.