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 China and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 arpeggiator 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the rock 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
X-101,
The Slits,
Isaac Hayes,
Amon Düül II,
John Cale,
Barbara Tucker,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Minor Threat,
The Evens,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Alarm Clocks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Icehouse,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Groovy Waters,
Vladislav Delay,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Chris Corsano,
China Crisis,
X-102,
James White and The Blacks,
The Raincoats,
The Tremeloes,
Reagan Youth,
Matthew Halsall,
the Normal,
Tom Boy,
Traffic Nightmare,
Funky Four + One,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The J.B.'s,
Clear Light,
Ornette Coleman,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jeff Mills,
8 Eyed Spy,
Youth Brigade,
Zapp,
Tubeway Army,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lower 48,
Rotary Connection,
Underground Resistance,
Soft Cell,
The Motions,
Darondo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Letta Mbulu,
Outsiders,
Connie Case,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Cure,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Selecter,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Toasters,
Tommy Roe,
Rhythm & Sound,
New Order,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.