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 Slovenia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Visage to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Newcleus,
Lalann,
Negative Approach,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Radiohead,
cv313,
Fat Boys,
Youth Brigade,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Joe Finger,
Zero Boys,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bizarre Inc.,
Skaos,
Scrapy,
Graham Central Station,
Minny Pops,
Josef K,
Bobby Sherman,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Doors,
Swans,
Vainqueur,
Moby Grape,
Tom Boy,
Average White Band,
Yusef Lateef,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Knickerbockers,
The Angels of Light,
Supertramp,
Theoretical Girls,
Dark Day,
Accadde A,
Fela Kuti,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pylon,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Trojans,
The Moleskins,
Suicide,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
the Swans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Foxx,
Cluster,
Rakim,
Beasts of Bourbon,
DJ Sneak,
Nick Fraelich,
Symarip,
Peter & Gordon,
Roxy Music,
The Gories,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cal Tjader,
Shuggie Otis,
Marc Almond,
The Gun Club,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.