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 Chile and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 oboe 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 Joensuu 1685 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Y Pants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Holt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
Dave Gahan,
Hashim,
Sound Behaviour,
10cc,
The Moody Blues,
Chris Corsano,
Alison Limerick,
Qualms,
Flipper,
Zero Boys,
The Pop Group,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nik Kershaw,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Connie Case,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Soulsonic Force,
Alphaville,
D'Angelo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Amazonics,
Sex Pistols,
The Slackers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dark Day,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Zeros,
the Bar-Kays,
Scott Walker,
Bang On A Can,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joey Negro,
Be Bop Deluxe,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Faust,
Patti Smith,
The Litter,
Amon Düül II,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Real Kids,
Yaz,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nation of Ulysses,
MDC,
Suburban Knight,
Bob Dylan,
The J.B.'s,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Gun Club,
Heaven 17,
Joe Smooth,
Buzzcocks,
Gabor Szabo,
The Evens,
Crispian St. Peters,
the Soft Cell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.