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 Andorra and from Taipei.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 J.B.'s to the techno 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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Unwound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Infiniti,
Harry Pussy,
Moby Grape,
Bill Near,
Mary Jane Girls,
Surgeon,
Isaac Hayes,
Dave Gahan,
Roxy Music,
Popol Vuh,
the Association,
Quantec,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Human League,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Crime,
Harmonia,
Cal Tjader,
Ronan,
Babytalk,
Alphaville,
Curtis Mayfield,
Soft Machine,
Talk Talk,
Godley & Creme,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bizarre Inc.,
Colin Newman,
Scratch Acid,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Gap Band,
Delta 5,
Newcleus,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Dual Sessions,
Mantronix,
Los Fastidios,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Tom Boy,
The Move,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marine Girls,
The Invisible,
Roger Hodgson,
Tears for Fears,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ken Boothe,
MC5,
Basic Channel,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Scan 7,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.