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 Pakistan and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 theremin 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 Blossom Toes to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Sound Behaviour,
Archie Shepp,
Joensuu 1685,
The Leaves,
Can,
The Cure,
Graham Central Station,
The Fall,
Q and Not U,
Whodini,
Minny Pops,
Maleditus Sound,
David McCallum,
Idris Muhammad,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
T.S.O.L.,
Zero Boys,
Liliput,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camberwell Now,
Mars,
Cecil Taylor,
kango's stein massive,
Scrapy,
Roxy Music,
Barbara Tucker,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Groovy Waters,
Man Parrish,
Henry Cow,
Marvin Gaye,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Donny Hathaway,
Sällskapet,
Blake Baxter,
Rod Modell,
Nas,
Derrick May,
Matthew Bourne,
Mo-Dettes,
DNA,
Wally Richardson,
Fear,
Scratch Acid,
Funky Four + One,
The Music Machine,
The Blackbyrds,
The Dave Clark Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Shadows of Knight,
Flipper,
The Fortunes,
Harry Pussy,
Cheater Slicks,
The Saints,
Derrick Morgan,
Neil Young,
La Düsseldorf,
Japan,
The Slits,
James White and The Blacks,
Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes.
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.