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 Togo and from Calgary.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 rhodes 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 Johnny Osbourne to the jazz 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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Minnie Riperton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
La Düsseldorf,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Litter,
Magma,
Aural Exciters,
Barbara Tucker,
Judy Mowatt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Derrick Morgan,
Amon Düül,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joey Negro,
Skarface,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Derrick May,
Gastr Del Sol,
Buzzcocks,
Tres Demented,
Cameo,
The Pretty Things,
The Red Krayola,
Absolute Body Control,
Khruangbin,
The Kinks,
Vladislav Delay,
Wire,
Reagan Youth,
Simply Red,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Steve Hackett,
Sex Pistols,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Divine Comedy,
Heaven 17,
the Human League,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Fortunes,
Monolake,
Drive Like Jehu,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Radiohead,
Aaron Thompson,
Scion,
LL Cool J,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Matthew Halsall,
Terry Callier,
Stetsasonic,
Faraquet,
The Motions,
Wings,
Pussy Galore,
Flash Fearless,
Parry Music,
New Order,
Cluster,
Grandmaster Flash,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.