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 Philippines and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Ultra Naté to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Ultramagnetic MC's tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Spandau Ballet,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rotary Connection,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lou Reed,
Deadbeat,
Urselle,
The Skatalites,
Michelle Simonal,
8 Eyed Spy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Drexciya,
Altered Images,
The Dirtbombs,
Graham Central Station,
The Tremeloes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Y Pants,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
FM Einheit,
In Retrospect,
Popol Vuh,
The Cramps,
The Angels of Light,
Sexual Harrassment,
James White and The Blacks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Stetsasonic,
Joensuu 1685,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Deepchord,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Black Pus,
Babytalk,
Fela Kuti,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sun City Girls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Trumans Water,
Boz Scaggs,
Minor Threat,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Real Kids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Q and Not U,
Amazonics,
The Move,
Cal Tjader,
Fad Gadget,
Icehouse,
Goldenarms,
Harry Pussy,
Schoolly D,
Negative Approach,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.