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 Maldives and from Milan.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 London Community Gospel Choir to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Radio Birdman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
Jeff Mills,
Clear Light,
Aloha Tigers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
David McCallum,
Girls At Our Best!,
Hoover,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sandy B,
The Barracudas,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Black Dice,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kenny Larkin,
the Human League,
Scientists,
Dave Gahan,
Jeff Lynne,
FM Einheit,
Can,
Dark Day,
Alphaville,
Deadbeat,
Bronski Beat,
Y Pants,
The Vogues,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Soft Machine,
Sam Rivers,
Gang Starr,
The Toasters,
Tropical Tobacco,
Blancmange,
The Doors,
Tears for Fears,
Joey Negro,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lakeside,
One Last Wish,
Absolute Body Control,
The New Christs,
Quantec,
Soulsonic Force,
Isaac Hayes,
ABBA,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Motions,
The Gories,
Ice-T,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Buzzcocks,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Marcia Griffiths,
Intrusion,
Radiopuhelimet,
Max Romeo,
The Birthday Party,
Pierre Henry,
Roger Hodgson,
Sparks,
The Slits,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.