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 Pakistan and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Sound to the dance 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet 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?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lightning Bolt,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
New Order,
Television Personalities,
Skarface,
Arthur Verocai,
Faust,
Second Layer,
Cecil Taylor,
Pagans,
Jesper Dahlback,
Archie Shepp,
Nirvana,
Minor Threat,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rites of Spring,
Accadde A,
Sandy B,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Juan Atkins,
The Names,
World's Most,
Curtis Mayfield,
MC5,
The Fuzztones,
Soulsonic Force,
The J.B.'s,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Cramps,
D'Angelo,
Tomorrow,
Brass Construction,
Peter & Gordon,
Darondo,
Chris Corsano,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Theoretical Girls,
Yaz,
The Grass Roots,
Harmonia,
David Axelrod,
Sun Ra,
Schoolly D,
Funkadelic,
Outsiders,
Trumans Water,
Johnny Osbourne,
Nico,
Youth Brigade,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tom Boy,
Michelle Simonal,
Althea and Donna,
Gang Starr,
Rod Modell,
Moss Icon,
Byron Stingily,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Neil Young,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.