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 Eritrea and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Paris and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 organ 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 Desert Stars to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
Young Marble Giants,
Soft Machine,
MDC,
Echospace,
Stiv Bators,
Chris & Cosey,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Audionom,
10cc,
The Young Rascals,
The Saints,
Rapeman,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Marvin Gaye,
The Gladiators,
Minor Threat,
Simply Red,
Hardrive,
Barclay James Harvest,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Stetsasonic,
Crooked Eye,
Soft Cell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Janne Schatter,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ponytail,
Lindisfarne,
Yazoo,
Barbara Tucker,
Bobby Hutcherson,
U.S. Maple,
Crispy Ambulance,
Oblivians,
The Move,
Negative Approach,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kaleidoscope,
Vainqueur,
Sound Behaviour,
Kool Moe Dee,
Aaron Thompson,
Porter Ricks,
Visage,
the Normal,
a-ha,
Agent Orange,
Thompson Twins,
Tubeway Army,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dennis Brown,
Lyres,
Ken Boothe,
Carl Craig,
Metal Thangz,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Trojans,
Tim Buckley,
Bad Manners,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
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.