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 Namibia and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Drexciya to the rock 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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Freddie Wadling,
Graham Central Station,
Half Japanese,
DJ Style,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Agitation Free,
Eric Dolphy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Echospace,
Joe Finger,
Von Mondo,
New Age Steppers,
Warren Ellis,
The Tremeloes,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Flash Fearless,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pole,
Average White Band,
Reagan Youth,
Zero Boys,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Stockholm Monsters,
Thee Headcoats,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Nick Fraelich,
Ice-T,
Animal Collective,
Liliput,
Godley & Creme,
Faust,
Surgeon,
Avey Tare,
Swell Maps,
Nils Olav,
Aural Exciters,
Masters at Work,
cv313,
Stereo Dub,
Eurythmics,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Selecter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arcadia,
Althea and Donna,
Tropical Tobacco,
Erasure,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
This Heat,
Los Fastidios,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Slick Rick,
One Last Wish,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.