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 Suriname and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 linndrum 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 Bauhaus to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Kevin Saunderson,
Main Source,
Zapp,
The Wake,
Ludus,
Popol Vuh,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Grey Daturas,
Malaria!,
AZ,
Josef K,
Organ,
London Community Gospel Choir,
T.S.O.L.,
Dual Sessions,
R.M.O.,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Slackers,
Essential Logic,
Joe Finger,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Erykah Badu,
Byron Stingily,
Aural Exciters,
D'Angelo,
The Real Kids,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
June Days,
Parry Music,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Groovy Waters,
Hashim,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Durutti Column,
MDC,
Sparks,
John Foxx,
Eric Dolphy,
Gang Green,
Black Moon,
Terrestrial Tones,
Flash Fearless,
Ponytail,
Marine Girls,
Dawn Penn,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scrapy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sonic Youth,
Television Personalities,
Dennis Brown,
The Mummies,
Ronnie Foster,
Audionom,
Au Pairs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Warsaw,
Theoretical Girls,
Pole,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.