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 Chad and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 linndrum 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 Mars to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Neon Judgement,
Echospace,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Zeros,
The Litter,
Piero Umiliani,
Quantec,
Country Joe & The Fish,
EPMD,
Kurtis Blow,
Dennis Brown,
Lindisfarne,
Smog,
Johnny Clarke,
The Angels of Light,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Aaron Thompson,
Wally Richardson,
Youth Brigade,
Andrew Hill,
Schoolly D,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scott Walker,
Ponytail,
Mantronix,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Can,
Charles Mingus,
World's Most,
Quando Quango,
Todd Terry,
The Cowsills,
Reuben Wilson,
The Doobie Brothers,
Main Source,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Soft Cell,
The Motions,
The Monochrome Set,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Arab on Radar,
Graham Central Station,
Marcia Griffiths,
A Certain Ratio,
The Offenders,
Boogie Down Productions,
Slave,
The Durutti Column,
David Bowie,
Public Image Ltd.,
Electric Prunes,
The American Breed,
Henry Cow,
Public Enemy,
Donny Hathaway,
Marine Girls,
Wire,
The Young Rascals,
Junior Murvin,
Alphaville,
Aural Exciters,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lou Reed,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.