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 Japan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Chris & Cosey to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Mummies. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smoke,
The Sonics,
H. Thieme,
Grauzone,
The Grass Roots,
KRS-One,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Yazoo,
Alison Limerick,
DJ Sneak,
Lou Christie,
The Alarm Clocks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Move,
Slave,
Deepchord,
Todd Terry,
Dennis Brown,
Cymande,
L. Decosne,
Barrington Levy,
Albert Ayler,
8 Eyed Spy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Con Funk Shun,
Reagan Youth,
The Gap Band,
Qualms,
Idris Muhammad,
Rotary Connection,
The Fall,
Rites of Spring,
Average White Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Flash Fearless,
Derrick May,
The Moleskins,
Icehouse,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Interpol,
Soulsonic Force,
The Monochrome Set,
EPMD,
Sixth Finger,
Rekid,
Schoolly D,
Essential Logic,
Roxy Music,
Warsaw,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Blancmange,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pet Shop Boys,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bobby Byrd,
Tropical Tobacco,
T. Rex,
Delon & Dalcan,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.