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 Guinea and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Soulsonic Force to the disco 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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Thompson Twins,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sixth Finger,
The Zeros,
Flash Fearless,
Susan Cadogan,
Symarip,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bobby Byrd,
The Saints,
David Axelrod,
The Angels of Light,
Los Fastidios,
Von Mondo,
Pagans,
Mr. Review,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kerri Chandler,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kurtis Blow,
The Move,
X-102,
The Martian,
Todd Rundgren,
ABC,
Ultimate Spinach,
Schoolly D,
Joy Division,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bill Near,
The Dirtbombs,
UT,
Television,
Echospace,
Gerry Rafferty,
Roxy Music,
Lungfish,
the Germs,
The Cure,
Althea and Donna,
Rotary Connection,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Victims,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Colin Newman,
Erasure,
Pharoah Sanders,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Wyatt,
Toni Rubio,
Cluster,
World's Most,
Nirvana,
Black Bananas,
Howard Jones,
Bobby Womack,
Gong,
Yaz,
June Days,
Patti Smith,
Harpers Bizarre,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.