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 Taiwan and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 linndrum 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Beau Brummels 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee 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?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Remains,
Circle Jerks,
World's Most,
Urselle,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Motions,
The Vogues,
D'Angelo,
The Slackers,
Arcadia,
The Standells,
Sixth Finger,
AZ,
Sight & Sound,
Make Up,
Judy Mowatt,
Marc Almond,
Flipper,
Sister Nancy,
Peter & Gordon,
Big Daddy Kane,
L. Decosne,
Marvin Gaye,
Lalo Schifrin,
June of 44,
John Lydon,
The Index,
Ituana,
Colin Newman,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Matthew Bourne,
Bobbi Humphrey,
In Retrospect,
Cybotron,
Pussy Galore,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kerrie Biddell,
Byron Stingily,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sexual Harrassment,
Howard Jones,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Negative Approach,
Roy Ayers,
Lindisfarne,
Blossom Toes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ash Ra Tempel,
Au Pairs,
Ossler,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Radio Birdman,
Quando Quango,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Durutti Column,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bill Near,
Janne Schatter,
Bill Wells,
Minny Pops,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.