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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Toronto.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sound Behaviour to the grime 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers 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 disco 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Victims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
Ken Boothe,
Ossler,
The Motions,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Black Bananas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Buzzcocks,
Yellowson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bauhaus,
Hoover,
Fear,
Laurel Aitken,
John Cale,
Suburban Knight,
Fluxion,
The Wake,
The Fall,
Unwound,
Stereo Dub,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Gun Club,
Thompson Twins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Khruangbin,
Boz Scaggs,
Animal Collective,
Radiohead,
Easy Going,
Piero Umiliani,
Duran Duran,
Nik Kershaw,
Underground Resistance,
Robert Görl,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mandrill,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Second Layer,
These Immortal Souls,
DJ Sneak,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Blake Baxter,
Pet Shop Boys,
Grey Daturas,
Swell Maps,
Godley & Creme,
LL Cool J,
Peter & Gordon,
Yazoo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Hashim,
The Sonics,
The Buckinghams,
Nick Fraelich,
Moebius,
Cal Tjader,
Little Man,
Lakeside,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.