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 Somalia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar 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 Litter to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Funky Four + One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Freddie Wadling record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Josef K,
Chrome,
Schoolly D,
DJ Style,
10cc,
Agent Orange,
Zero Boys,
Pole,
cv313,
Gregory Isaacs,
Inner City,
Hoover,
Adolescents,
Minnie Riperton,
F. McDonald,
New Age Steppers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pet Shop Boys,
Albert Ayler,
Nas,
Blossom Toes,
This Heat,
Shoche,
Fear,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Saccharine Trust,
Henry Cow,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Fortunes,
Quantec,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Visage,
Eurythmics,
Faraquet,
The Gap Band,
Bad Manners,
The Toasters,
Godley & Creme,
Isaac Hayes,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Joensuu 1685,
Joe Smooth,
The United States of America,
Dual Sessions,
Malaria!,
Royal Trux,
Derrick Morgan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Banda Bassotti,
Outsiders,
Alphaville,
The Music Machine,
Eric Copeland,
Pantytec,
Scan 7,
John Foxx,
The Detroit Cobras,
Amon Düül II,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.