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 Nepal and from Calgary.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Harpers Bizarre to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June of 44,
The Happenings,
The Smoke,
Deepchord,
Crispy Ambulance,
ABC,
The Grass Roots,
T. Rex,
Fatback Band,
Eric Copeland,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gang Green,
Subhumans,
D'Angelo,
Silicon Teens,
Absolute Body Control,
Simply Red,
Desert Stars,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
X-101,
The Move,
Girls At Our Best!,
Erykah Badu,
Angry Samoans,
John Coltrane,
Morten Harket,
Lee Hazlewood,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gastr Del Sol,
In Retrospect,
Robert Görl,
Minor Threat,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Andrew Hill,
Main Source,
The Cowsills,
The Sound,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tropical Tobacco,
Radiohead,
Joy Division,
The Slackers,
Black Bananas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DNA,
Man Parrish,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kas Product,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rapeman,
The Offenders,
Royal Trux,
Index,
Arthur Verocai,
Pantytec,
Little Man,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Livin' Joy,
Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight.
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.