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 Yemen and from Calgary.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Rapeman to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
Colin Newman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Visage,
John Holt,
The Wake,
X-Ray Spex,
Simply Red,
Deepchord,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rosa Yemen,
Godley & Creme,
Chris Corsano,
The Fire Engines,
The Pretty Things,
Yazoo,
The Skatalites,
Peter and Kerry,
Bizarre Inc.,
Brick,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Parry Music,
The Gladiators,
The Golliwogs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pet Shop Boys,
Echospace,
Robert Görl,
Banda Bassotti,
Al Stewart,
Symarip,
The Mummies,
Clear Light,
Masters at Work,
Dual Sessions,
the Human League,
Dead Boys,
Mandrill,
Bad Manners,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Grey Daturas,
Ice-T,
The Techniques,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Saints,
Scion,
Juan Atkins,
Basic Channel,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Absolute Body Control,
Spandau Ballet,
Todd Rundgren,
The Blues Magoos,
Siglo XX,
Letta Mbulu,
Sandy B,
Johnny Clarke,
Gerry Rafferty,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Gun Club,
Pylon,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.