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 Indonesia and from Toronto.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 The Electric Prunes to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fela Kuti. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
Pole,
Bad Manners,
Aural Exciters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dave Gahan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Donald Byrd,
Banda Bassotti,
Parry Music,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kaleidoscope,
X-Ray Spex,
Rod Modell,
Shuggie Otis,
Lalo Schifrin,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Tubeway Army,
Sound Behaviour,
Scott Walker,
The Red Krayola,
The Last Poets,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Con Funk Shun,
Circle Jerks,
Metal Thangz,
Leonard Cohen,
Second Layer,
The Seeds,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Urselle,
Skaos,
The Dirtbombs,
Das Ding,
Sarah Menescal,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Knickerbockers,
Absolute Body Control,
Eurythmics,
Warren Ellis,
Bush Tetras,
Gang Green,
Public Image Ltd.,
Panda Bear,
Ice-T,
Surgeon,
The Smoke,
The Cramps,
John Foxx,
LL Cool J,
Excepter,
Half Japanese,
The Fortunes,
Peter and Kerry,
Terry Callier,
Max Romeo,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camberwell Now,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.