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 Germany and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the grime 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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Grass Roots record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rufus Thomas,
Organ,
R.M.O.,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Talk Talk,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Saints,
Buzzcocks,
Ronnie Foster,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Joyce Sims,
Bizarre Inc.,
Reagan Youth,
This Heat,
Amon Düül II,
ABBA,
Vladislav Delay,
Soulsonic Force,
The Pretty Things,
The Motions,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Bar-Kays,
The Blues Magoos,
Neil Young,
The Fuzztones,
Intrusion,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Half Japanese,
Sexual Harrassment,
Motorama,
Hashim,
The Litter,
Chris & Cosey,
Eric B and Rakim,
Mission of Burma,
The Golliwogs,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Scratch Acid,
Delta 5,
Susan Cadogan,
Youth Brigade,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
T.S.O.L.,
Qualms,
Charles Mingus,
Aaron Thompson,
Public Image Ltd.,
John Holt,
The Fugs,
Quantec,
Althea and Donna,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The New Christs,
Masters at Work,
Soul II Soul,
Erasure,
H. Thieme,
Tomorrow,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.