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 Croatia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and New York.
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 mellotron 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 The Skatalites to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Soul Sonic Force,
World's Most,
Idris Muhammad,
The Birthday Party,
Roxy Music,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tim Buckley,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sexual Harrassment,
Swans,
Johnny Clarke,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Suicide,
Bluetip,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Marvin Gaye,
The Mojo Men,
Ronan,
Organ,
Angry Samoans,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Durutti Column,
The Move,
The Fortunes,
Q and Not U,
The Moody Blues,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ponytail,
Thompson Twins,
Pulsallama,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Fad Gadget,
Lungfish,
Jacques Brel,
Brand Nubian,
Altered Images,
Main Source,
Derrick May,
Kenny Larkin,
Gerry Rafferty,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Stereo Dub,
Darondo,
Mantronix,
Alison Limerick,
E-Dancer,
EPMD,
Ultimate Spinach,
cv313,
Outsiders,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
R.M.O.,
Tubeway Army,
Sonic Youth,
Rakim,
Quando Quango,
Roger Hodgson,
Vainqueur,
Aswad,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.