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 Tajikistan and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Banda Bassotti to the funk 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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blancmange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Human League,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Flash Fearless,
A Certain Ratio,
Pierre Henry,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ice-T,
The Moody Blues,
Ronnie Foster,
Pagans,
Tommy Roe,
Lou Christie,
China Crisis,
The Velvet Underground,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Fad Gadget,
Albert Ayler,
Judy Mowatt,
The Associates,
Popol Vuh,
Peter & Gordon,
Chris Corsano,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eddi Front,
Dave Gahan,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Tom Boy,
R.M.O.,
Whodini,
Max Romeo,
Mantronix,
The Human League,
Sun City Girls,
Alton Ellis,
Soft Machine,
Rhythm & Sound,
Scan 7,
Jeff Mills,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eric Copeland,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Section 25,
Heaven 17,
Jandek,
Lalann,
Minutemen,
The Fuzztones,
The Invisible,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Accadde A,
Vladislav Delay,
Ituana,
Marshall Jefferson,
Crash Course in Science,
Arcadia,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Soft Cell,
Lakeside,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.