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 Ukraine and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Sugar Minott to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Womack tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Barrington Levy,
Rapeman,
Public Enemy,
Andrew Hill,
Theoretical Girls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric B and Rakim,
JFA,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Human League,
Television Personalities,
Alice Coltrane,
New Age Steppers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Albert Ayler,
Byron Stingily,
Jimmy McGriff,
LL Cool J,
Anthony Braxton,
Vladislav Delay,
Sister Nancy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ultra Naté,
The Smoke,
Michelle Simonal,
Trumans Water,
Pulsallama,
Adolescents,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Soft Cell,
B.T. Express,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Misunderstood,
David Axelrod,
The Durutti Column,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Association,
Crispian St. Peters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Warren Ellis,
Wasted Youth,
Charles Mingus,
Sugar Minott,
Roy Ayers,
Sex Pistols,
Procol Harum,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Henry Cow,
kango's stein massive,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sarah Menescal,
Main Source,
Banda Bassotti,
Masters at Work,
Aloha Tigers,
The Techniques,
Fela Kuti,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.